Tony Schwartz, whose new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance (coming out in May), has a whole chapter on the importance of sleep.
As Schwartz puts it, “the way we are working (and the way the world works) isn’t working, for most people or most organizations.” And he singles out the role sleep plays in making people happier, healthier, and more productive.
“No single behavior,” writes Schwartz, “more fundamentally influences our effectiveness in waking life than sleep… sleep may well be more critical to our well being than diet, exercise and even heredity.”
Sleep is so vital to success in everything we do, Schwartz titles his chapter about it “Sleep or Die.” In it, he cites the role lack of sleep played in numerous high-profile disasters — including the Three Mile Island meltdown, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle — and points out that “Amnesty International lists prolonged sleep deprivation as a form of torture, and it has widely been used as an interrogation tactic.”
Steven Wilson has joined with others reduce their dependence on medications for pain relief,sleep disorders andlow energy.
Tagged with: Sleep
Filed under: Health & Wellness
Leave a Reply