Weaver & Loom

In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try. After a week of getting only six hours of sleep a night, I wound up sick, and it took a week or two before I returned to my normal level of productivity. But that was only the beginning of my experimentations with sleep. As a result of my failures, I resented myself, and my body, for needing up to nine hours of sleep to feel rested and to function properly. I fought my “weakness” with all my strength. I dreamed of how amazing it would be to need only six hours of sleep. I fantasized about how much more I could accomplish if only my body would cooperate. I was an ignorant fool. Here is the study mentioned in the episode: Van Dongen HP, Mullington JM, Dinges DF. “The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation.”  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469 Until next time… Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future. Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at: www.lucasskrobot.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot https://www.instagram.com/lucasskrobot  

Show Notes

In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try.

After a week of getting only six hours of sleep a night, I wound up sick, and it took a week or two before I returned to my normal level of productivity. But that was only the beginning of my experimentations with sleep.

As a result of my failures, I resented myself, and my body, for needing up to nine hours of sleep to feel rested and to function properly.

I fought my “weakness” with all my strength. I dreamed of how amazing it would be to need only six hours of sleep.

I fantasized about how much more I could accomplish if only my body would cooperate.

I was an ignorant fool.

Here is the study mentioned in the episode:

Van Dongen HP, Mullington JM, Dinges DF. “The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation.”  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

https://www.instagram.com/lucasskrobot

 

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What is Weaver & Loom?

In Weaver and Loom, we unravel the wonderment of the spiritual, natural, fate, and the divine through mythic and sacred story, biblical parables, ancient fables, and Christ-haunted narratives--getting lost in the mysteries of the our human creation so that we might grope our way to Christ and become illuminated in midsts of the mundane and sufferings of life.