Chapter 23
Why Great Performers Sleep More
by Tony Schwartz
Why is sleep one of the first things we’re willing to sacrifice as the demands in our lives keep rising? We continue to live by a remarkably durable myth: Sleeping one hour less will give us one more hour of productivity. In reality even small amounts of sleep deprivation take a significant toll on our health, mood, cognitive capacity, and productivity
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
When researchers put test subjects into environments without clocks or windows and ask them to sleep any time they feel tired, 95% sleep between seven and eight hours out of every 24. Another 2.5% sleep more than eight hours. That means just 2.5% of us require fewer than seven hours of sleep a night to feel ...
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