{"id":449,"date":"2012-04-22T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-04-29T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:27:13","slug":"self-applying-monetary-incentives-to-my-sleep-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/2012\/04\/22\/self-applying-monetary-incentives-to-my-sleep-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Applying Monetary Incentives to Improve Sleep Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tambako\/6207294794\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6162\/6207294794_27a921e0aa.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeping Indira\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the next week, I will donate $1 to charity for every hour or fraction there of that I stay up after midnight. This is a one week experiment. Next week, I\u2019ll evaluate it and decide if it\u2019s something that I want to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to get on an earlier schedule for a while. One strategy that I\u2019ve employed is to make myself to get up earlier. This semester, I took an early morning exercise class once a week. I made it to all classes and although there were a few painful days in which I was very sleep deprived, this has helped a lot.<\/p>\n<p>However, I still find myself staying up later than I intend to do. When I\u2019m on the computer, it\u2019s just too easy to get sucked into thinking that I\u2019ll just read one more article or post one additional email. When I\u2019m out with friends, it\u2019s easy to think that I\u2019ll just stay up a few minutes longer. I\u2019m instituting this experimental policy so that I\u2019ll have an incentive to go to bed earlier. I know there will be times when staying up late is necessary or highly desirable which is why I\u2019ve decided to use flexible monetary incentives rather than a hard and fast rule.<\/p>\n<p>Notes: I\u2019m counting the time when I\u2019m in bed with the lights out rather than when I actually fall asleep. Calculating the exact time that I fall asleep is difficult and not something I can totally control. This project may have been inspired by this <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/05\/29\/money-shredding-alarm\/#15159Side-View\">alarm clock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kudumomo\/3476476973\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3353\/3476476973_b3190de817_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sleep, Don&#039;t Weep\" width=\"562\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credits: Images courtesy of flickr \u00a0users <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kudumomo\/\">kudumomo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tambako\/\">Tambako the Jaguar<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">(CC\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">BY-ND 2.0)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update: 29 April 2012 &#8211; Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/2012\/04\/29\/follow-up-to-self-applying-monetary-incentives-to-my-sleep-schedule\/\">results after 1 week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next week, I will donate $1 to charity for every hour or fraction there of that I stay up after midnight. This is a one week experiment. Next week, I\u2019ll evaluate it and decide if it\u2019s something that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/2012\/04\/22\/self-applying-monetary-incentives-to-my-sleep-schedule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dlarochelle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}