Hard-Working Writers Need at Least 10 Hours of Sleep

Athletes do it, why not us?

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Athletes who got over 10 hours of sleep performed better on nearly every metric.

That makes sense for athletes because they use their whole bodies for extreme performance. However, a shocking 20–25% of the energy used by the body is in the brain — a mere 8-pound glob of fatty tissue. For example, Chess…