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June 7, 2021 10:41 pm at 10:41 pm #1980969
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There are two stirah:
1) Americans say – early bird gets the worm. Chinies – early bird gets eaten … minhag hamakom

2) bein Rambam v’Rambam. In one place, IIRC, he suggests sleeping 8 hours and wake up with sunrise. In deot, as mentioned above, he suggests learning during day and night, which facilitate different type of learning. Resolution seems to be – even if you want to be healthy follow the first advice, if you want to learn well – the second.