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The irony of it all is that many of us are suffering from sleep deprivation so that we can work more, but the drop in performance ruins any potential benefits of working additional hours.

In the United States alone, studies have estimated that sleep deprivation is costing businesses over $100 billion each year in lost efficiency and performance. 3

As Gregory Belenky, Director of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University, puts it: "Unless you're doing work that doesn't require much thought, you are trading time awake at the expense of performance."

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If you want to learn how to sleep better, then you're in the right place. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know if you want to get better sleep. I'll explain the science of sleep and how it works, discuss why many people suffer from sleep deprivation without knowing it, and...

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And this brings us to the important question: At what point does sleep debt start accumulating? When do performance declines start adding up? According to a wide range of studies, the tipping point is usually around the 7 or 7.5 hour mark. Generally speaking, experts agree that 95 percent of adul...

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We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, which affects our health, job performance, our relationships, and happiness. If we talk about the data collected from a single country like India-

  • 93% of Indians are sleep deprived.
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