Who you are at 6 a.m., before anyone needs anything from you, is worth getting to know.

Early morning, before anybody needs anything, is one of the few stretches when you are not responding to somebody. No requests have landed, no tone has been set, and whatever you think or want in that hour is unusually uncontaminated by other people. Most of us only ever meet the version of ourselves that is already reacting to something.

Get up early once this week with nothing scheduled for the first half hour. Do not fill it with productivity or a screen, just find out what you are like. One morning is enough to tell whether it suits you.