Early bird...? ...or?

There are people who suggest that if you want to get more done, you should simply leave bed an hour earlier - in that way, you would worst case get 365 additional hours a year.
However, I am convinced that it is not a universal - for early birds is certainly excellent, for they can just go an hour earlier to bed at night, at which time they are not as effective. But for the night owls, I doubt that there will be any outcome - except perhaps the negative one that they will get one less hour of productive time at the end of the day.
So although I'm an early bird (at least in the morning), I am not blind to the fact that the advice is given by early birds to early birds without taking night owl habits much into account.
If I were to give the advice, I think that I would state it as

Expand your productive time by one waking hour instead of sleeping. 

Early birds can get up even earlier, Night owls go to bed later, and either can where necessary gain back the sleep on the time of day, where they are less productive.
But in any case it's a bad idea to unconditionally accept advice that lumps all recipients together in one barrel.
(Translated from Tidligt op og...? eller?, originally published March 30th, 2017)

What would I do?

Some time ago, I encountered the idea that it is advantageous to be able to form a fictitious "advisory board" for oneself: a panel of advisors that one respects and would like to be able to ask for advice in case of existential doubt.
The beauty of it is that since it is a fictitious panel, which one only keeps and asks for advice in one's own mind, it is possible to pick and choose between the living and the dead, or even between real and fictional people. Grundtvig, Einstein, Newton; even Sherlock Holmes and Jesus, if so desired. The idea is that in these cases of existential doubt, one should ask the advisory panel for advice, in order to set a clear path through the doubt.
It is not dramatically different from the people who have a single person to take into consideration, as in: "What would Jesus do?" - And basically it's just a matter of that one seeks connection to the side of one's own personality that one's perception of the advisor represents - it's all just something going on in the head of the seeker of advice.
To believe that it is possible to get an answer without introspection, without first seeking deeply within oneself, is simply to deceive oneself. Basically, there is only one person on the panel - the seeking person itself.
(Translated from Hvad ville jeg selv gøre?, originally published January 29th, 2011)