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It makes you smarter According
to Dr. Matthew Walker of the University of California, napping for as
little as one hour resets your short-term memory and helps you learn
facts more easily after you wake up.
Abandon all-nighters Foregoing
sleep by cramming all night reduces your ability to retain information
by up to 40%. If you can, mix in a nap somewhere to refresh your
hippocampus.
It doesn’t mean what you think If
you know you have to pull an all-nighter, try a “prophylactic nap.”
It’s a short nap in advance of expected sleep deprivation that will help
you stay alert for up to 10 hours afterwards.
You can’t avoid that down period after lunch by not eating Human
bodies naturally go through two phases of deep tiredness, one between
2-4 a.m. and between 1-3 p.m. Skipping lunch won’t help this period of
diminished alertness and coordination.
Pick the right time After
lunch in the early afternoon your body naturally gets tired. This is
the best time to take a brief nap, as it’s early enough to not mess with
your nighttime sleep.
Hour naps are great A
60-minute nap improves alertness for 10 hours, although with naps over
45 minutes you risk what’s known as “sleep inertia,” that groggy feeling
that may last for half an hour or more.
But short naps are best For
healthy young adults, naps as short as 20, 10, or even 2 minutes can be
all you need to get the mental benefits of sleep, without risking
grogginess.
Drink coffee first The
way this works is you drink a cup of coffee right before taking your
20-minute or half-hour nap, which is precisely how long caffeine takes
to kick in. That way when you wake up, you’re not only refreshed, but
ready to go.
The NASA nap A
little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases
performance by 34% and alertness by 54%. Pilots take advantage of NASA
naps while planes are on autopilot.
Can’t sleep? Don’t stress Even
if you can’t fall asleep for a nap, just laying down and resting has
benefits. Studies have found resting results in lowered blood pressure,
which even some college kids have to worry about if they are genetically
predisposed to high blood pressure.
Napping may save your life A
multi-year Greek study found napping at least three times per week for
at least 30 minutes resulted in a 37% lower death rate due to heart
problems.
More nap benefits for the brain Not only will napping improve your alertness, it will also help your decision-making, creativity, and sensory perception.
But wait, there’s more Studies
have found napping raises your stamina 11%, increases ability to stay
asleep all night by 12%, and lowers the time required to fall asleep by
14%.
The ultimate nap According
to Dr. Sara Mednick, the best nap occurs when REM sleep is in
proportion to slow-wave sleep. Use her patented Take A Nap Nap Wheel to
calculate what time of day you can nap to the max.
Fight the Freshman 15 Research
shows that women who sleep five hours at night are 32% more likely to
experience major weight gain than those sleeping seven hours. A two-hour
nap isn’t feasible for many, but napping is a good way to make up for
at least some lost night sleep.
If it was good enough for them… Presidents
JFK and Bill Clinton used to nap every day to help ease the heavy
burden of ruling the free world. Of course, they also had other
relaxation methods, but we won’t get into those.
Do like the Romans do In
ancient Rome, everyone, including children, retreated for a 2 or 3-hour
nap after lunch. No doubt this is the reason the Roman empire lasted
over 1,000 years
Don’t wait too long The
latest you want to wake up from a nap is five hours before bedtime,
otherwise you risk not being able to fall asleep at night.
Sugar is not a good substitute for a nap When
we are tired, we instinctively reach for foods with a high glycemic
index, but after the initial energy wears off, we’re left more tired
than we were before.
It’s a good way to catch up If
it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep at night, you are
sleep deprived. If you never can seem to get to bed earlier at night, a
mid-day nap is a great way to catch up on sleep.
Underclassmen need more sleep Freshmen
and sophomores who are still in your teens: you need up to 10 hours of
sleep to feel rested. So odds are, you are sleep-deprived.
You’ll have to leave the party sooner After
one school-week of not getting enough sleep, three alcoholic drinks
will affect you the same way six would when you are fully rested.
Don’t drive drowsy Don’t
be afraid to take advantage of an “emergency nap” on the side of the
road in your car. Every year, as many as 100,000 traffic fatalities are
caused by sleepy people behind the wheel.
The Einstein Method If
you are concerned about sleeping too long, do what Albert Einstein
regularly did: hold a pencil while you’re drifting off, so when you fall
asleep, the pencil dropping will wake you up. (We do not guarantee you
will wake up with a 180 IQ.)
Missing sleep is worse at your age For people ages 18 to 24, sleep deprivation impairs performance more significantly than in other age brackets.
I remember when people first realized how much funnier these comics were just without Garfield’s dialog, which Jon was never able to hear anyway. Garfield only ever communicated to us readers in thought balloons, after all. What we’re seeing here is Jon’s canonical reality.
I’m torn between laughing at these and being deeply worried for Jon lol
this is like 100% what living with cats is like
Everyone being worried about him but like as a cat owner I can assure you we 100% talk to our cats like this all the time.
This week’s current issue in mental health: the price of medication. With numerous people sharing stories about how medication was the first step when they were getting help, we wanted to point out how the cost of these treatments is prohibitive especially for people without insurance.
Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.
Moving tip: the first thing you should bring into the new house is a roll of toilet paper. The second thing is drinking glasses or water bottles. The third thing is curtains or blinds. Then everything else.
Nope, router first. Otherwise agreed.
Router last. Otherwise this happens:
I’m on my 11th house in 23 years and here’s what should be in your “first” box:
Toilet roll,
Kettle,
Tea/coffee,
Mugs (enough for the number of people helping you to move),
A bottle opener (wine or beer at your discretion)
Disposable plates and cutlery (because the last thing you want to do once you’ve unpacked is wash up)
This was the system perfected by my parents who’ve lived in about 40 houses between them.
ADDITION:
When you get to your new place send someone out for milk for the teas and coffees also maybe biscuits.
Order takeaway your first night. I’m told in America the traditional moving dinner is pizza. We’ve always had a Chinese.
