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What's crazier is only 4.5 hours of sleep each day. That makes me feel sick thinking about. Makes me feel even more grateful for my 15 second commute from my be
by spraak 9y ago
What's crazier is only 4.5 hours of sleep each day. That makes me feel sick thinking about. Makes me feel even more grateful for my 15 second commute from my bed to computer :/
- s0rce 9y agoSleep on the train might help a bit, still crazy.
- duck 9y ago4.5 hours and she is 60 years old. I know for me the older I get the more important getting 7-8 hours is, so not sure how she is pulling that off!
- schuke 9y agoIt's natural that older people tend to need less sleep though.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoIt's normal, but we don't really know why people tend to sleep less as they get older. A lot of things we traditionally viewed as a normal part of aging are now seen as disease pathology. She's also been doing this for 16 years, so age doesn't really explain it anyway.
- nicksergeant 9y agoThat is a common misconception: https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/aging-and-sleep https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/aging-and-sleep
- gozur88 9y agoIt's not that they need less sleep, it's that they don't sleep as well as they did in earlier years.
- maxxxxx 9y agoSleeping is harder but you still need the sleep.
- shams93 9y agoWell as someone over 45 I can say if I get less than 6 hours I'm functioning on half my normal IQ. Engineering requires deep concentration for me that means 8 hours sleep if I want to perform as aggressively as my juniors.
- tasty_freeze 9y agoIf she is getting only 4.5 hours of sleep, the best use of her time on the train on the way to work is to sleep, not drink tea and chit-chat.
- gnicholas 9y agoThe article does say that she sleeps on the train sometimes. I also wondered if this is her primary commuting activity, and that it's downplayed because the story wouldn't be as compelling if she slept 4.5 hours plus another 90 mins on the train each way, which would add up to 7.5 hours.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoMight add up numerically but it is not of the same quality.
- hn_throwaway_99 9y agoHonestly, the 4.5 hours of sleep each day really makes me question the veracity of the story, or at least if it's somehow exaggerated. While there are a small percentage of people who genetically require less sleep, 4.5 hours day in-day out would result in severe sleep deprivation symptoms in the vast majority of people. I know after a couple nights in a row with 6-7 hours of sleep I basically become pretty non-functional and I always get sick.
- ksec 9y agoIt depends, there are many in working in place like Hong Kong and Tokyo sleeping 4 hours a day. Including many of my colleagues. No idea how they do it because i need minimum of 8 and preferably 10 for my brain to function at decent level. Any less sleep will means my productivity drop off rapidly and makes error and judgement that I need days to recover from.
- QAPereo 9y agoYou mentioned two places which have troublesome levels of both amphetamine abuse among workers, and in the case of Japan, has a word for “working oneself to death.”
- bitexploder 9y agoIsn't the equivalent in the US. "death march"? I am not familiar with Japanese, so maybe it is more direct.
- Fnoord 9y agoKarōshi [1] is the Japanese term. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
- chronic193 9y agoDeath march refers to a team working "or marching" on a project, usually instructed "conducted" by a manager, when everyone knows the project will fail or "die". Hence the name death march.
- xor1 9y agoThis was the craziest part for me, and I have no doubt that such low quantity of sleep would affect a person negatively.