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I think the best quote about this, during reports from Prof Jim Horne about people people different in this respect: "In a nutshell, if you sleep for eight hour
by kokey 15y ago
I think the best quote about this, during reports from Prof Jim Horne about people people different in this respect: "In a nutshell, if you sleep for eight hours a night go to work and find yourself lolling and drooling on the keyboard, you aren't getting enough. If you're sleeping five hours and running the country, you probably are getting enough." The latter was in reference to Margaret Thatcher who seemed to function fine with about 5 hours sleep at night.
- patrickk 15y agoMargaret Thatcher used to take vitamin B shots to compensate. An a chronic insomniac myself, I really wish this macho, superhuman bullshit about sleep would just die already. I try to get 8 hours and still struggle. Apparently there is a small fraction of people who manage with tiny amounts of sleep because they are geneticically different[1], but there is no use in using that as a standard that 95% of people should live by. [1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetic-mutation-sleep-less http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetic-mut...