How to need Sleep Less
How to Sleep Less and Get More Out of Your Day- Thomas DeLauer
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my first CEO told me that sleep is a
crutch he told me that he'll sleep when
he's dead and at the time I told him
well it's sleeps important it's what
makes us function and I was right sleep
is important but he was also right -
okay not that it's a crutch but we can
get by with a lot less sleep than what
we think and I'm gonna explain it to you
in a way that might make some sense I
want you to do the math would you rather
sleep for seven hours but really only
sleep for fifteen to twenty minutes of
each of those hours meaning you're only
getting 15 minutes of quality sleep for
every hour that you're asleep or would
you rather sleep for four hours and get
deep sleep for 45 to 50 minutes of that
time and us as businesspeople our minds
are always going 120 miles per hour in
fact sleep a lot of times just becomes
annoying because it's just one more
thing it's almost a necessary evil that
we have to get through in order to get
to the next day where we can hopefully
get some things done but the fact is a
sleep is dynamic and what I mean by that
is sleep how much sleep you need is
always changing based on so many
different things and it's not always
about input versus output if you ran a
marathon today it doesn't necessarily
mean that you're going to need more
sleep tonight than you did yesterday
totally resting it's totally dynamic
it's always changing hormones are
adjusting everything is happening your
body and you can't predict it so one of
the things is you know we always get
stressed out in business over things
that we can control we're really good at
stressing out about things that oh if I
hadn't done this this would be different
or if I did this this would be different
but we've all gotten pretty good at
knowing that we can't change some things
so let me drill that into your head that
you can't change how much sleep you're
going to need it's going to change from
day to day so you need to focus on just
going to sleep when you're tired don't
make yourself go to bed early it's not
going to do yourself any good eat the
right kind of nutritious foods eat the
right kind of fats and you can find that
guide in the description of this video
but make sure that you're prepared to go
to bed don't just try to put yourself to
sleep because otherwise cortisol levels
are going to elevate you're going to get
stressed out and cortisol is
specifically designed to help alert you
it releases adrenaline in fact you
release cortisol when you get up in the
morning you release cortisol when you
get up in the morning so that you don't
get lightheaded and fall over so
cortisol is not really what we want when
we want to go to sleep we want to be as
calm and relaxed as possible but we all
know that as business people we aren't
usually calm and relaxed we're usually
hardwired to be go-getters so just relax
get your work done go to bed when it's
time and don't stress about going to
sleep because honestly you can run on
for hours
you can run on four hours of sleep just
fine and if it makes you feel better the
journal of psychosomatic research
actually proved that short optimized
bouts of sleep are better than longer
low-quality versions of sleep so
hopefully this speaks to you and you can
go and get a few hours of good quality
sleep and go kick some butt tomorrow in
the office and in life
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