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While I agree with everything you say in general and I'm a confident advocate of "you should get more sleep!", I find it hard to condemn people for specific cas
by shazow 15y ago
While I agree with everything you say in general and I'm a confident advocate of "you should get more sleep!", I find it hard to condemn people for specific cases.
I need 8.5 hours of sleep per night to function properly, and the effects are very noticeable if I get reduced sleep for more than a couple of days in a row.
At the same time, I know several people who sleep 3~6 hours per night and I will not convince them otherwise: One suffers from insomnia for as long as he can remember and has effectively adapted his life around it, and another genuinely feels rested and is unable to sleep more.
We're all different with different needs, and we need to take that into account. But unfortunately most people don't pay attention to their needs and walk around like zombies five days a week, or worse.
- kahawe 15y agoI can honestly hardly believe the 3- to less-than-6 hours figure if it constantly is less than 4 or 5 per day... studies indicate that this, by and large, is where it WILL start having impacts but of course there could be exceptions and maybe there is a kernel-hacker gene!
- bh42222 15y agoThere is indeed a genetic difference, a very few people are able to sleep less with no negative side effects: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6795361.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/artic...
- dredmorbius 15y agoPeople tend to overestimate their own abilities and performance. Especially when they're operating in an impaired state: drugs, alcohol, fatigue, or cult-like communities (which often combine all of the above and then some). This is very well established in literature particularly regarding management and business: http://forum.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/russo/Managing%20Overconfidence.pdf http://forum.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/russo/Managing%20Ov... http://www.capitalideasonline.com/articles/index.php?id=2360 http://www.capitalideasonline.com/articles/index.php?id=2360 See also: Blindspots analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindspots_analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindspots_analysis