Uncovering the Importance of Sleep and How to Hack It
Shawna Curry
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ing like we perform better with less sleep, we do not. We are so hopped up on adrenaline that we don’t realize how sleep deprived we are.
I ended up having such poor sleep that at my worst, I was only sleeping two to three hours each night. And not even all at one time. I was so sleep deprived that I thought I was going crazy. I was moody, irrational and not very productive.
We aren’t aware of our own level of cognitive impairment. This makes it hard to assess our own level of functioning. It leads us to believe we are performing better than we are. We adapt to this decrease in sleep but are far from functioning at an optimal level. I can attest to this from my own experience. I thought I was doing far better than I was.
leep is one of those things that many of us don’t appreciate until it’s gone. I never used to value sleep and thought I was functioning well on only four hours of sleep each night. That is until my world fell apart.
I thought I was managing great on such little sleep and used to brag about how little sleep I could get away with. Despite thinking or feel-
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