Now to the NewsHour Bookshelf. So, when do you work best?Are you a night owl or an early bird? Jeffrey Brown explores these questions with author Daniel Pink.There are plenty of how-to books out there. Now comes a when-to, the best time of day to take an exam, say,or have a medical procedure, and big life decisions, getting married, getting divorced, quitting a job.The book is titled "When- The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing". And author Daniel Pink joins me now. Dan, hello.Hello, Jeff. Let me start with a when question for you. When did you get interested in this, and why?Well, I realized that I was making all kinds of when decisions myself, so things like, when in the day should I exercise?When should I abandon a project that's not working?And I was making them in a pretty haphazard way.And I figured I could make them in a better way. And I started looking at this research.And there is a mountain of research out there across many, many domains that allow us to make evidence-based,systematically smarter, shrewder decisions about when to do things.Smarter, shrewder. That subtitle, "Science," right?Sure. So, that's the data that you're looking at.Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's data that comes in the field of economics, social psychology, but also cognitive science, anesthesiology, endocrinology.There's a whole field of chronobiology. Linguistics gives us some clues. So, this research is all over the place.But in these different disciplines, they're asking very, very similar questions.All right, so daily routines first. You're teasing out some of the patterns of our lives.
现在进行NewsHour Bookshelf栏目环节。那么，什么时间你的工作（状态）最佳？你是夜猫子还是早起鸟？杰里弗・布朗与作者丹尼尔・平客探讨这些问题。这方面的指导书很多，都是关于“如何”的。而现在，来了一本“何时”，比如说，一天中“何时”是最佳赴考时段，或者最佳诊疗时段，最佳人生抉择时段，结婚，离婚，辞职。这本书名叫《何时――完美时机的科学秘密（When- The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing）》，作者丹尼尔・平客做客节目。丹，你好。你好，杰夫。让我先来问你一个关于“何时”的问题。何时起对这个问题感兴趣的，又因为什么？好吧，我意识到自己需要做各种时间方面的决定，所以比如像说，什么时候我该锻炼？什么时候该停掉做不下去的项目？我做决定的方式相当随意。我想我可以选用一种更好的方式来做决定。于是我开始投入研究。有跨越诸多领域堆积成山的研究，能让我们对何时做何事做出基于证据的、系统上更聪明、更明智的决定。更聪明，更明智。子标题“科学”，对么？是的。所以，这就是你所看到的数据。哦，是的，是的，是的。它的数据来源涉及经济学、社会心理学，还有认知科学、麻醉学、内分泌学。涉及时间生物学的全部领域。语言学给了我们一些线索。所以，这项研究铺天盖地。但是在这些不同的学科中，他们问的问题非常非常相似。好的，所以首先，日常生活。你正在梳理一些生活模式。
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