Too busy working to get enough sleep? (DW#696)
Do you ever sacrifice sleep because you have too much work to do?
You may want to pay attention to the following: (Talking to myself here).
Research shows that sleep-deprived people have to work way harder than they would have to work if they had a full night’s sleep to power them through their days.
As Mathew Walker explains, it takes twice as long to boil water on medium heat than it does on high heat. And working while you are sleep-deprived is like trying to boil water on medium heat.
Here’s how he puts it: “Under-slept employees are not, therefore, going to drive your business forward with productive innovation. Like a group of people riding stationary exercise bikes, everyone looks like they’re peddling, but the scenery never changes. The irony that employees miss is that when you are not getting enough sleep, you work less productively and thus need to work longer to accomplish a goal. This means you often must work longer and later into the evening, arrive home later, go to bed later, and need to wake up earlier, creating a negative feedback loop. Why try to boil a pot of water on medium heat when you could do so in half the time on high?”
(WOW - he captures exactly what I feel at time .... trying to work while tired is like riding a stationary exercise bike!)
He goes on to say that people often say that they do not have enough time to sleep because they have too much work to do. His take on the matter is that they have so much to do at the end of the day precisely because they do not sleep enough at night.
So are you trying to boil water at medium heat? How about turning off the heat, taking a nap and then boiling on full heat??
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