An early flight shows you a sunrise through airport glass that you’d never have woken up for. Notice it.

Inconvenience sometimes hands you something you would never have chosen to get up for. The five o’clock start is miserable and it also puts you somewhere, awake, at the exact hour the sky does its best work. Resentment is what makes you miss it, because you are busy thinking about how tired you are.

A bad schedule almost always has one compensation buried in it. The empty street at six, the quiet before anybody else arrives at work, the bus with nobody on it. Find this week’s and look at it for a minute, which will not make the early start worth it but does make it count.