Here's an interesting idea from the October 2009 Harvard Business Review. A recent study found that nearly one-third of adults who work at least 30 hours a week have fallen asleep or become extremely drowsy on the job. Whenever we need sleep some basic skills start to slide including visual discrimination, alertness, performance effectiveness and memory.
"The simplest way to reboot your brain," according the the HBR article is to take a nap of at least 30 minutes. This boosts memory, improves our abilities to solve problems creatively, slows burnout, aids learning and sharpens mental acuity. "A few minutes shut-eye at work (in the middle of the day) could be good for business," concludes the magazine.
A year or two ago Psychotherapy Networker published an entire series of articles on the potentially harmful effects of sleep deprivation. This is a practical issue that can impact us all. I wonder why it is so hard to apply it, why so many people take pride in the faulty conclusion that we can all function fine without getting sufficient sleep?
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