-the monday question-
Zzzzzz are you sleep deprived? zzzzzZ
Sleep depravation. Not one single innovation academy student can say he or she is not affected by it today. And it is, that the next morning after a night of coffee overdose, squinting over our laptops screens at 2 in the morning, Snapchating our stress amongst the team and running against time to meet the first deadline for our personal documentary's that I felt like I had the work ability of a been bag. Project based learning is not studying from a book for a test but can sometimes cause the same negative effect if we do not plan properly--we must create healthy deadlines. I could metaphorically say that today's morning learning opened my eyes, but that's sadly physically impossible; sleeping less than 8 hours a day to complete a task is filled with ignorant irony. Why? The next day your productivity is null. Did you know that your brain can react in the same efficiency or even better when your drunk than when you are sleep deprived? True fact. |
Productivity doesn't come from working MORE time but by being more efficient in smaller focused efforts.
I figured that it's not the staying later that makes you achieve more--it's the complete opposite. Being awake and productive in the first hours of the day will be much more beneficial than staying up late where your brain is already tired. After reading the article this morning on sleep deprivation I found surprising impacts that lack of sleep causes on your body. First of all, I'm a person who cares for my health, we should all be:
skin aging, gaining weight, brain function, memory, emotional health even heart-attack risks are all effects that we ignore yet do impact us when we alter our schedule.
A productive individual is the ritch of today and when the world spins uncontrollably rapid towards production and development, we tend to overwork. Spending entire nights awake becomes the normal for a high school student, but it shouldn't be. After all, there is a reason why we only have a 40 hour work week.
We realized as a class that if we are following our passion for learning then we should be sticking to our devotion for sleep. Think about it this way, last semester we learned the value meditation has in our health, sleeping is an equivalent to deeply meditating for 8 consecutive hours (or more) --your brain regenerates.
skin aging, gaining weight, brain function, memory, emotional health even heart-attack risks are all effects that we ignore yet do impact us when we alter our schedule.
A productive individual is the ritch of today and when the world spins uncontrollably rapid towards production and development, we tend to overwork. Spending entire nights awake becomes the normal for a high school student, but it shouldn't be. After all, there is a reason why we only have a 40 hour work week.
We realized as a class that if we are following our passion for learning then we should be sticking to our devotion for sleep. Think about it this way, last semester we learned the value meditation has in our health, sleeping is an equivalent to deeply meditating for 8 consecutive hours (or more) --your brain regenerates.
You act faster, you think faster; you will innovate.
For this reason I've made a personal commitment that we should all try at some point of our busy lives: work is over at 10:30. No matter how much I've got done until that time, I should not continue to work past 10:30 at night, a hard habit to build but one that will make me a stronger learner and liver. Additionally, it will also push me to complete more and not wonder around feeling that I've got all night to figure out my home work.