Snooze your way to success: how sleep affects your productivity
“You’re demonstrating a wildly outdated, anti-scientific and horribly inefficient way of using human energy. It’s like trying to launch us into our clean energy future (or into space) with a coal-fired steam engine. It just won’t work.”
Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive Global and outspoken sleep advocate, did not mince words in her recent open letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The letter was inspired by Musk’s candid New York Times interview, in which he revealed the depth of his sleep-sacrificing work habits.
According to Musk, he often worked 120-hour weeks. On his 47th birthday, he spent all 24 hours at work.
And his punishing schedule was taking a toll on his relationships, his health, and possibly even the wellbeing of his company.
The (lack of) sleep epidemic
Musk was less than receptive to Huffington’s advice to get more sleep. “You think this is an option,” he tweeted in response (at 2:30 am) “It is not.”
But Musk is hardly alone in prioritizing work over sleep. In fact, we’re in the midst of a sleep…
