Has become attractive when to go white? Humble bragging about sleep deprivation has invaded our jobs - "Yes, I went in 15 minutes with my desktop" or "It was a six-night Red Bull". Replies to e-mails at midnight, or by four hours has become a badge of honor; a symbol of the emergency, it is important awake and everything is available.
Fortunately, this trend may soon be worthy of snoring. Today there is a new source of wisdom about what we need to be happy and productive in our lives inside and outside the office. Researchers have not only many of the virtues, but the absolute necessity of getting enough sleep. Applications are downloaded from herds dream. Intelligent devices show the amount of sleep you got last night, and just when the dog turned and woke us up.
Sleep experts say adults need an average of eight hours of sleep. Those who think that they can get with a lot less maybe a little delusional away. In his groundbreaking book, Thrive, Arianna Huffington, Bill Clinton cited as an admission: "Every important mistake I made in my life, I have, because I really tired."
Sleep specialists have an impact on neurobehavioral defects even one night sleeping absorbed to be legally drunk. So much for nailing this presentation or checking of essential performance.
One reason for this trend of continuous sleep deprivation is so long that the majority of workers are still working well. Routine tasks of a job are often carried out on autopilot. Most of us can make it through the meetings and to-do lists with an infusion of blue bottle and a high sugar (but ultimately veran collapse) donut.
But where coffee can not save the day, where it counts: If you want to climb the next step on the ladder. Successfully, control is a tough business that requires mental strength, durability and the ability to handle a flood of new and complex information. Workers who sleep well think fast, creative and clear. When the brain has enough --overall improved performance and R & R. --rest recovery improves confidence, leadership and decision-making had.
Lack of sleep can also leave poorer. A study by researchers at UCSD Economic connects with the dream of our salaries "., A one-hour increase in average long-term dream salary increases 16%, equivalent to more than one school year" For those who have too little sleep, Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader report
Working mothers sleep less
After health, the lack of sleep puts us at risk for a variety of medical problems - high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, weight gain and a weakened immune system - in addition to memory problems brain activity changes, mood swings and depression. A Duke University study found that the risks associated with low levels of stress resulting from sleep and are more women than men. In fact, working mothers sleep less, with 59% of reports of surveys of sleep deprivation, and 50 percent say that they. Six hours sleep or less Part of this deficit comes from mothers, in desperate search of regular playing time, "me time" the lack of time - which can not be found in the tail of a busy day.
Seven ways to make its way to sleep up
Take Power Nap: Our heritage of hunter-gatherers could have prepared us for a nap today. Research shows that 20 minutes of sleep in the middle of our work day - about eight hours after the rise --is more than 20 minutes in the morning back. More nap, the value of an hour, you go into a deeper sleep, that disturb sleep at night or leave you stunned can. Moreover, the amount and depth of sleep much more restful - significantly increase cognitive function.
Meditation: If you can not find a good place in a nap office, or take unpleasant, can help meditation. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Simple maintenance can reduce stress, increase energy and improve concentration.
Quit coffee for 15 hours: It means Red Bull, too. Further review or sugary snacks in heavy carbohydrates. Substances such as nicotine, alcohol, decongestants and analgesics negatively on sleep.
Catch up with paying your weekend sleep deficit. Over-sleeping is usually not the trick. Sleep deprivation is cumulative. At ten clock on Saturday can not compensate for only five hours, you will learn to work every night.
Sleeping with the enemy: The research shows that you sleep with your smartphone, 75% of boomers confess interrupts their Zs even check their equipment before bedtime has a negative effect on the length and quality. Sleep.
Check in a sleep laboratory: A growing number of sleep laboratories and specialists are available to help, including the Golden Bear Sleep and clinical research in the mood for . UC Berkeley These are the scientists who discovered the link between weight gain and lack of sleep.
Are you committed an evangelist sleep.'re all, the need for a good night's sleep. Share our fully awake and refreshed, with others in the working mantra. It calls for our company, managers and HR staff to create policies, particularly the use of technology for after work, to support the new leader of the dream. Ministry of Labour in Germany was what to fill the "prohibition" of phone calls and e-mails after hours. Companies like Google installed EnergyPods sleep calls, the staff integrated a Bose music system in sleep and high-tech timer Podster awakens with light and vibrations allow stations.
Can we denigrate the trend in a dream once and for all so proud of 8 hours of work and is the new pride?
Tell us in the comments: How much sleep do you get? Do you sleep with your smartphone?
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