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The Importance of Sleep

The Importance of Sleep

Learn how a good night's sleep directly affects your work life.

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If there’s one thing that you take away from this chapter, it’s that you should, as much as possible, get eight hours of sleep every night. A good night’s sleep is the most reliable way of ensuring that you approach the next workday in a calm, thoughtful, and cognitively balanced manner.

Why do we need sleep?

Matthew Walker’s Why We SleepMatthew Walker. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams. Penguin, New York, NY, 2017. highlights the critical importance of sleep in humans. Even though studies have shown that insufficient sleep results in reduced concentration and cognitive performance and an increased risk of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer’s, strokes, chronic pain, and mental health issues, we routinely do not get enough. In fact, our habits are getting worse. Were you watching videos on your phone last night in bed before you went to sleep?

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