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Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

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Re: Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

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Too bad the body is often pretty lousy at honoring requests for quality sleep even when we make the time.

Yeah, I found that I need to train my body to sleep. If I go for a week or two with little sleep, the body seems to readjust to the pattern and refuses to sleep more.

Re: Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

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Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office in the morning. Most others at work feel awkward about taking naps - even with me evangelising naps :o)

Where do you nap? Does your office provide a suitable place?

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Re: Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

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Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office in the morning. Most others at work feel awkward about taking naps - even with me evangelising naps :o)

I have to admit, I'd feel awkward taking naps in my office.

What I usually do is go to my car in the parking garage and nap there. It works wonders; I recognize that the 15 min that I lose to the nap would have been lost to my brain being a foggy mess, so the nap is a net gain.

Re: Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

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I'm a big fan of naps. I take one around 2PM or so, usually for about 15-20 minutes.

It's not about being a fan or not, it's about a possibility of doing this in a typical office.

Offices are lagging so far behind. We need bike storage, shower rooms, nap rooms, lots of natural light, open rooms, quiet rooms, better snacks and drinks...
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