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Fractal Guy's avatar

As a 6-hour sleeper my takeaway is that I have achieved the perfect balance between serotonin replenishment and time wasting. Also, do naps count? How about biphasic sleep?

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The Living Philosophy's avatar

Haha you have hacked the Matrix. I don't know about naps or biphasic. I don't know that the 4-hour sleepers need them but the creatives usually love them. There are plenty anecdotal stories of creatives (Einstein and Edison come to mind) using naps to incubate ideas. The nap is a wonderful tool for resetting the mental slate I find but that's probably because creative work usually requires that meandering chaotic mind

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Cathie Campbell's avatar

To each one’s own.

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theoryphilosophy's avatar

I think the 4-hour sleepers align their methods of inquiry with their intellectual preoccupations, making all their work an interesting exploration. They are able to learn in their idiosyncratic ways, and still produce or are in the process of producing value in the terms of the present world, making it activities worth pursuing and pushing through. Their meaning making process is on high drive.

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