Using Sleep as a way to Propel Academic Productivity
Looking back on my childhood, I was raised in a school environment that was extremely academically oriented. Receiving full marks on every assessment and exam was what I lived for and it consumed me completely. As a naive and ambitious 13 year old student, I would purposely sleep at 3AM to prove to myself I was studying “enough” hours, yet I would never perform at an optimal level in any of my courses. I later understood how being deprived of sleep was not only hindering me from reaching my full potential, rather I was doing a major disservice to my overall health. You might be able to get away with being sleep deprived for a couple of weeks, yet once your body reaches an extreme deficit when it comes to sleep, your body will backfire completely. For me personally, the combination of stress, overworking myself, and being sleep deprived for five consecutive years led my body to reaching a breaking point. I was eventually hospitalized due to malnourishment, Bradycardia and other dire hea...