Successful people dont sleep5/18/2023 ![]() The plethora of homes and palaces he stuffed with his work is one measure of his output, but visitors to the Museum at Antibes will see the entire place fitted out with what Picasso created in about six weeks - while on a "relaxed," beach filled vacation. Though he would sometimes sleep semi-normal amounts of hours, when the master got going a 20-22 hour day was not completely unusual. As one son explained, "he was the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." As John Gartner, David McCulloch and a host of others have written, TR generally accomplished more each day than many people could in a week - and that was before breakfast. One individual who often did not require much sleep was Teddy Roosevelt. Whatever those genes are that create high energy individuals, not having too much expression of them can provide a major boon. Yet many highly energetic people will rightly never get any psychiatric diagnosis, though they may have bipolar relatives. A few get diagnosed as experiencing manic-depressive, or as the great poet Robert Lowell put it, manic-impressive illness. Kennedy lived a sickness-filled life where he often recognized some folks have far more vim and vigor than the rest of us. Yet there are people who though they need to rest often, don't seem to need much sleep. Just following natural body clocks can make many of us more aware and productive throughout the day and happily rested when waking at the end of the night. Humans are built to sleep at night and remain awake most of the day. Performers and entertainers may use cocaine to get up and alcohol to come down, but much of the population relies instead on more culturally acceptable versions, constant daytime coffee or energy drinks, following by antihistamines, alcohol or sleeping pills to slam their night-day cycle into gear. Sadly, much of the population is already caught in the "Up-Down Trap" engaging stimulants and depressants to harness every second of their meager allotted sleep time. She has also publicly recommended her fans not copy her use of cocaine and alcohol. Recent reports are the singer is so fearful of slumber she requires a member of her entourage to sleep with her. Recently Lady Gaga famously echoed Warren Zevon declaring "I'll sleep when I'm dead."Īpparently she does sleep, if a bit curiously. Yet the sleep styles of the rich and famous are indeed different. Most of us would look at our health insurance plan (if we had one) tote up the potential bill, and rapidly decide hospitals are not the place we'd choose to get rest. The entertainer had hoped to become president of Haiti, but his candidacy was thrown out by the national electoral commission supposedly because Jean had lived in New Jersey and not the disaster plagued island these past five years (New Jersey Tourism Commission, please note.) Overcome by fatigue, Jean needed to go to the hospital to get some sleep.
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