Every person has the same 24 hours in a day as successful people, but managing the time is the main aspect of reaching such heights. It is proven by scientists that sound sleep is good for health, productivity and performance. The thinking of becoming a successful person mainly by hard work and jeopardizing the sleeping pattern is a wrong approach. Serious sleep along with nutrition and exercise and hard work is the ladder to success. Sleep is not like debt in a bank where you will be awake for two to three days and will sleep for 1 day continuously. It’s not like piling a debt in the bank and then repaying in a single day. Sleep bulimia is the term where you frame your lost sleep during the week on the weekends as not an ultimate solution for recovering the lost sleep.
Here are some highly successful personalities' sleeping habits that will help you to fine-tune your sleep and is important to understand how your waking patterns verify your sleeping patterns.
Jeff Bezos- CEO of Amazon
He loves to indulge in quality sleep time and a well-planned day. He manages to get eight hours of sleep; he is an early to bed and early bed riser. Moreover, Jess plans his business meetings a day before and starts his mornings with family. He stated in one of his interviews “I like to read the newspaper, I like to have coffee, I like to have breakfast with my kids before they go to school. My puttering time is very important to me.” He plans to set the important sessions in the morning by 10 a.m. as he thinks he is mentally strong and fresh to make the right decisions. Bezos makes certain not to take decisions after 5 in the evening as his energy drains out and postpones it to the next day by 10 in the morning with a fresh start and fresh mind.
Bill Gates- Co-founder of Microsoft
A fanatic eager beaver and a disciplinarian who did not believe in holidays or weekends, also who also didn’t believe in sleep much once stated that "I routinely pulled all-nighters when we had to deliver a piece of software. Once or twice, I stayed up two nights in a row, obsessed with my work, and I felt that sleeping a lot was lazy."
He also confessed that he was not that razor-sharp when he was working on the dose of caffeine and adrenaline. Reading Matthew Walker's epic book Why We Sleep, was the major turning point in his sleeping pattern. Gates quoting the words of Dr. Thomas Roth expressed “The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without impairment, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.” Now he is giving ideas to improve sleep hygiene by replacing LED bulbs in your bedroom, restricting alcohol intake, mid naps, and maintaining body temperature.
Arianna Huffington – A media baron and author
An international media tycoon and author of The Sleep Revolution learned the importance of sleep after collapsing on the table in a pool of blood after two years of Huffington Post. She expressed her emotions in her TED Talk in 2010 “I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone, I got five stitches on my right eye. And I began the journey of rediscovering the value of sleep,”
Huffington now believes that sleep is a path to a more constructive, more inspired, and cheerful life. During eight hours of sleep, she follows certain rules before going to bed. She turns off all the gadgets and gently safeguards them by placing them out of her bedroom. Before sleeping she reads a book that is at all not related to work.