Sleeping well can boost your learning with 20 to 40% in comparison to those who are sleep-deprived.

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SUPERINTELLIGENCE
The Power of Sleep in Learning: Mind-
Blowing Science
Many people, sadly, haven’t unlocked this potential their whole lives
Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Dec 31, 2019 · 3 min read
e all know sleep is important for (mental) health, but what do the
numbers say?
According to the book:
Why We Sleep
No, it's not really a how-to guide. There is a two-page
appendix which gives tips for getting consistently good…
www.goodreads.com
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3. Sleeping well can boost your learning with 20 to 40% in comparison to
those who are sleep-deprived.
The problem, however, is that it’s hard for long-term sleep-deprived people
to know they are sleep-deprived. However, according to the book, just 1
hour of less sleep for 10 nights is sufficient to make your performance
equivalent to someone who is drunk. This includes driving, learning,
reaction time, and so on.
One hour of less sleep every day, sadly, is a reality for many people and
especially students.
So how does sleep enhance learning?
The Mechanics of Sleep In Learning
irst of all, as we progress throughout the day learning new stuff, they
are mostly stored in the hippocampus. This brain region, however, has
a relatively small space to store memories and can get full quickly.
What happens during sleep, is that these memories either get transferred
from the hippocampus to the neocortex (which has a much bigger storage
space) or they get removed.
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4. See: Memory consolidation, Wikipedia for more information
A lack of sleep results in your hippocampus not being completely emptied
(or almost) nor are your memories that well consolidated (strengthened).
This, in turn, makes it harder to learn and remember new things the next
day.
Sleep and Productivity
f you had to choose between earning $80,000 a year while working
normal hours and getting good sleep versus $140,000 while working
insane hours and only sleep 6 hours a day, what would you choose?
Most people would choose the latter. The book, however, teaches that you
can get both in the long-term, namely earning $140,000 while sleeping
well every night.
Why? Because you make less errors, are much more creative, and so on
when having slept well.
This, too, counts for studying and learning things.
Don’t sacrifice quality for quantity.
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5. ImprovingYour Sleep Quality
For those interested, Bill Gates wrote a review on the same book
mentioning tips to improve your sleep quality:
Bill Gates's review of Why We Sleep
4/5: Back in my early Microsoft days, I routinely pulled all-
nighters when we had to deliver a piece of software. Once…
www.goodreads.com
. . .
If you liked this article, you may also like this one:
This Is Why People With Autism Have Worse Sleep:
Science and Treatment
It might be due to their genetics
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