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
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