How your (lack of) sleep is killing your productivity | Weaver & Loom [E089]

In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try. After a week of getting only six hours of sleep a night, I wound up sick, and it took a week or two before I returned to my normal level of productivity. But that was only the beginning of my experimentations with sleep. As a result of my failures, I resented myself, and my body, for needing up to nine hours of sleep to feel rested and to function properly. I fought my “weakness” with all my strength. I dreamed of how amazing it would be to need only six hours of sleep. I fantasized about how much more I could accomplish if only my body would cooperate. I was an ignorant fool. Here is the study mentioned in the episode: Van Dongen HP, Mullington JM, Dinges DF. “The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation.”  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469 Until next time… Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future. Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at: www.lucasskrobot.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot https://www.instagram.com/lucasskrobot   ★ Support this podcast ★