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Sleep is the greatest legal performance enhancing drug that most people are probably neglecting.
–– @sleepdiplomat
Sleep was something I neglected for too long.
'Hustle culture' had me jaded.
I was struggling for creativity and I couldn't think why.
Yet the solution was simple– get more sleep.
I was skipping the golden nugget.
Rest is equally important as the work itself.
In an interview with Joe Rogan, Matthew Walker said:
"Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice with a night of sleep makes perfect... The next day you’re 20-30x better at your skilled performance compared to the end of your practice session the day before."
Deliberate work and deliberate rest are the two halves of a creative life.
Each is necessary. Together they are ferocious.
I wrote about the paradox of productivity and the importance of sleep in my newsletter.
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