Take a nap
THE PRINCIPLE
Short naps leave you refreshed and more creative
The Spanish, Greeks and Italians have known it for a long time: a nap in the afternoon is a good thing.
The North American Space Agency confirmed it with a study that showed a 34 per cent increase in performance following a 26-minute nap. (Do you notice that statistics never seem to come in odd numbers?)
Nap expert Dr Sara C. Mednick (author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life – and no, I’m not making that up) says that different lengths of nap have different benefits. To increase alertness, try 20 minutes, for better memory try 40, and for increased creativity, it’s 90 minutes.
Some businesses have even installed ‘energy pods’ in which their employees can catch ‘forty ...
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