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Alarm Clock Myth - How to wake up early

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Everyone wants to wake up early, and make good use of those extra early morning hours. But we fail all the time, even if we succeed, its one-off times. I thought its a good opportunity to seize and fix this problem with the existing alarm clocks. I started exploring the existing solutions out there and found there are quite many interesting stuff: A whole breed of biologically sync'd clocks who wake you up when you are least in sleep Hard to snooze alarm clocks which ask you to solve a difficult puzzle to snooze an annoying alarm tone Motivational messages to wake you up I gave all the existing products a lot of thought and why they don't quite work. Here is my conclusion: People don't really understand the real purpose of alarm clocks .   Here's the deal: Alarm clocks are not meant to wake you up. Yes, you read it right. Alarm clocks really are the mission-control, last resort plan to wake you up at the deadline time. You are supposed to get up on