Posted on 06/14/2014 7:06:38 PM PDT by WilliamIII
What do Marissa Mayer (Yahoo’s CEO), Indira Nooyi (Chairman & CEO of Pepsico), Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice (Former US secretary of state), Thomas Edison (inventor), Jay Leno (TV host) and Shah Rukh Khan (Bollywood superstar) have in common?
Give up?
They all sleep or slept for only three-four hours a night. These are just a few of the numerous successful people around the world whose time management regimen barely allows them to get any sleep. Donald Trump once asked, “How does somebody that's sleeping 12 and 14 hours a day compete with someone that's sleeping three or four?".
It’s a valid question, albeit one with an obvious answer. You can’t! There is no competition there. Even if the person who sleeps only three-four hours a day goofs around for a few hours here and there, they would still be in a better position to work towards being more successful! Now let us not get into the argument of what success means. It clearly means different things to different people. To me, success might be providing an excellent education to each and every child on the planet and to others it might mean owning a private jet, an island and an Aston Martin. Both need crazy numbers of hours to be invested from the pool of time you have been given on this earth.
So the question really boils down to – how do you use time management skills to maximize the time you have? After only two weeks here at the Darden School of Business, I came to realize that the only way to do this is sleep less!
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Sleep the amount of time your own body requires, preferably while hugging your partner. Spend time with your kids and grand-kids. Take a nap when you need it. Work when you must, and work hard when you do. Work really hard, in fact, but at tasks that matter - the ones that add value for your clients and customers. And if that takes, oh, more than 10 hours a day, you're probably doing something wrong. Then: go home, have a drink, eat dinner and enjoy the company of the ones who really matter - your friends and family.
Excellent summation.
I don’t believe for a second that BO sleeps only 3-4 hours a night.
I had an uncle who was a scientist invited to meet with other intellectual lights, organized by Buckminster Fuller.
When my uncle came back, I told him that I had read Fuller credited lack of sleep for his extraordinary creativity.
My uncle responded that Bucky should get a lot more sleep.
Archana. Is that a woman or a spider? Sounds like whatever it is, it should do fine working for the Boston Consluting Group. I don’t think much of MBA conslutants.
Anytime someone tells me they have been working 14 to 16 hours a day I first consider them a liar. Nobody can sustain that for long. I’ve treid, you eventually crash. 21 to 28 days is about all you can stand out on a rig like that when you are in trouble.
A combat nap does wonders. Yes, Edison took naps.
Weed makes one sleep a lot.
eh? you say.
multiply you time, by investing in things that make money without using up much of your time.
TIME is a very valuable commodity that all of us have a limited amount of. Since we are only given a set amount of it, the best and easiest way of making a LOT more money is to invest in things that make money with little or no time input on your part.
Things that fall into this category: rental property, stocks, billboard owner, storage facility, any business that you can hire and trust someone else to competently manage, ect.
Any thing you do that requires your constant presence ... is by definition limited in terms of what you can earn doing it.
I see you are in Arkansas and run Herfords. Nice paintings.
I’m trying to get back up there and do the same. Crazy black cows and me just don’t jibe.
I’ve been to a lot of the places you’ve painted.
Smithing is something on my bucket list.
yeah I ain’t buying it on barak, I am guessing that dude doesn’t miss many zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs and watches a lot of TV too
They are desperate to find positive things to say about him, no matter how trivial or untrue.
Or, on the flip side, who in their right mind would call that failure, a success??
In the military, I sometimes worked 16-20 hour days...for a week, maybe two. But if you get 4 hours of sleep a night, it WILL take a tremendous toll on most people. I’ve sat in planning meetings where folks were so tired that a question would be followed by 2 minutes of silence as everyone tried to figure out even a simple answer.
I did have a professor who couldn’t sleep more than 4 hours a night, but there are very few like him.
J.P. Morgan said he could get a years worth of work done in nine months, but not in twelve.
and remember, every hour of sleep before midnight counts as two.
If Obama only needs 4 hours of sleep (which I don’t believe) he should have been studying so he’d know how to pronounce the word ‘corpsman” and spell the word Syracuse.
Well, except for Thomas Edison, they are all nonentities of imbeciles. Pass.
This is the first I heard of hussein, the man who keeps bankers hours in the Whitehouse sleeping 3-4 hours per night.
In my industry, you sleep less as every project needs to get done. For the past month, I come home at 10 PM and wake up at 7...getting out of bad at 8. It’s like that Guns N Roses line from Mr Brownstone, “i wake up around 7, get up from bed around 9.”
be pissed at trump, not me. 12-14 hours a day for a normal adult is way too much. we’re not talking exception jobs that may very well fatigue and exhaust a person to need 12-14 hours. he’s not talking about exceptions, he’s generalizing a broad category of people, the majority of people who aren’t super-high-strung power ceo’s.
i’m just citing what the average working person working a mon-fri job generally gets a night. stating what the typical sleep range for working people is isn’t making it a “rule”.
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