Sleep is
a subject of perpetual fascination.
Especially
when it comes to the sleeping habits of highly successful people.
Madetomeasureblinds-uk.com,
a company that sells blinds, used YouGov research to map the sleeping rituals
of the general population against high-achieving folks like Amazon boss Jeff
Bezos and US president Barack Obama.
The
results are fascinating.
The
National Sleep Foundation recommends around 7-9 hours of sleep a night for
those between 16 and 64.
But
former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor and talk show extraordinaire Jay Leno, say they
require much less, on average, than others in their field.
It’s also
interesting to see how various industries compare.
Marketing
and PR types, for example, appear to need more sleep than politicians.
Yet it’s
the biggest names in marketing and PR that get the least overall.
You’ll notice
a common theme.
Aside
from a few anomalies — namely Bezos and Arianna Huffington (who really loves
sleep) — the world’s top performers don’t snuggle down as much as everyone
else.
Take, for
example, Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi’s. He claims he needs just 2-4
hours of sleep.
Meanwhile,
billionaire Donald Trump says he snoozes just 3-4 hours each day.
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