A Good Night’s Sleep Feels Like Winning The Lottery

How do chronically sleep-deprived workaholics function?

Oh, to be a sleeping kitten. Source: Midjourney

I’ve always been jealous of people who can operate on little to no sleep. People who live as if they have miniature nuclear power plants inside their chests. Your enterprising, multi-tasking Energizer Bunnies that just keep going and going.

Danielle Steel, the popular romance novelist, writes virtually non-stop, sleeping only for a few hours at a time. She hardly eats, too. I wrote about her insane work schedule a few years ago. The woman is a page-peddling Terminator.

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Then there’s the Donald. I can’t believe the seemingly limitless energy Trump exhibits on the campaign trail. A three-hour conversation on a big podcast like The Joe Rogan Experience would exhaust me like a vampire at sunrise. He does that, then flies to a rally in Michigan and talks for another two hours. The guy is almost 80 years old.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar once scoffed at the idea that you need eight hours of sleep. You only need six according to him, which I…