Showing posts with label Sleep profile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sleep profile. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Successful executives and the four-hour sleep myth

For Gregory McKee, getting a good night’s sleep is as important as eating right and exercising regularly. If he doesn’t get eight hours of shuteye, the founder and managing director of La Jolla, California-based STS Capital Partners will have trouble functioning the next day.
Seven or more hours' sleep a night boosts the benefits to the heart of a healthy lifestyle, research suggests.
Two months ago, McKee took an overnight flight across the country for a meeting. He barely slept. By mid-afternoon he was disengaged and he kept leaving the room to get more coffee and soda. He couldn’t make out a word of his sleep-deprived notes when