Ruby on Rails developer - Maker of ✨ things on the Internet. O(🐌^n) kind of guy. Alumni @lewagonparis (batch 145). Builds wooden furniture on his balcony.
22 years old, Computer Science student and currently Software Engineer at Netcetera. Passionate about technology, programming, specifically about deep learning, algorithms and applied maths.
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies
I agree with you on everything you said, a good night's sleep is crucial if you want to function normally, however I have to correct you one one thing: I've been following Gary V for quite a long time now and he's not that inspirational-wake-up-early-to-hustle-every-goddamn-minute-of-your-life type of guy. He's the do-what-makes-you-happy-in-life kind of guy, and he even says this quite a lot, it just so happens that working is what he loves. He keeps saying that if you're genuinely happy earning $40k a year and having lots of time to spend with your family, then you should do that. Not that you MUST work and earn more by any means necessary.
Ruby on Rails developer - Maker of ✨ things on the Internet. O(🐌^n) kind of guy. Alumni @lewagonparis (batch 145). Builds wooden furniture on his balcony.
I haven't been following his stuff for years now so my views might be outdated, but I remember him being super pushy on the work hard most hours of most days.
He's the do-what-makes-you-happy-in-life kind of guy
It’s quite good if you’re trying to accomplish something for yourself, and if you try to do this in the evening (after a full day of work) you are not able (too tired).
The solution is to do work for yourself first (early in the morning, when everybody else sleeps), and then do the day work (that will drain however much energy you have).
And also you can make some good changes in your diet, some people can't understand that you can have a healthy sleep and not being on the bed for 8hrs.
No matter if you wake up earlier or sleep later, a little exercise and a good diet will even be more useful for your body than 2 or 3 hours more of sleep.
Shifting the circadian rhythm is possible of course but it's a myth to believe that you can do whatever with it. It is greatly determined genetically (see e.g. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/24/12/1... and referenced articles) and you cannot fully go against it. If you do advance your circadian rythm, you will always be fighting against it because it will tend to shift back to it's genetically determined natural time.
As for the diet and exercise I totally agree that it's very important as well, but if you are sleeping 5h a night you might still need the extra 2- hours :)
Ruby on Rails developer - Maker of ✨ things on the Internet. O(🐌^n) kind of guy. Alumni @lewagonparis (batch 145). Builds wooden furniture on his balcony.
Ruby on Rails developer - Maker of ✨ things on the Internet. O(🐌^n) kind of guy. Alumni @lewagonparis (batch 145). Builds wooden furniture on his balcony.
Yes! I plan on waking up naturally, without an alarm.
Yes! 12 months of good night's sleep.
Yes! Someone who would not love me at all if I were to ring an alarm every bloody day at the crack of dawn.
Yes! 12 months of good night's sleep. (very important that one)
snores Oh sure, allowing your body and your brain to get the full benefits of sleep is for whiners.
Is it so bad to miss out on things? Why are you so afraid about missing out? That's the question that interests me right now.
It's time to put this inspirational-wake-up-early-to-hustle-every-goddamn-minute-of-your-life nonsense to bed (without setting the alarm).
We don't need another Gary V in this world.
I agree with you on everything you said, a good night's sleep is crucial if you want to function normally, however I have to correct you one one thing: I've been following Gary V for quite a long time now and he's not that inspirational-wake-up-early-to-hustle-every-goddamn-minute-of-your-life type of guy. He's the do-what-makes-you-happy-in-life kind of guy, and he even says this quite a lot, it just so happens that working is what he loves. He keeps saying that if you're genuinely happy earning $40k a year and having lots of time to spend with your family, then you should do that. Not that you MUST work and earn more by any means necessary.
Just wanted to share my .02$ on that.
I haven't been following his stuff for years now so my views might be outdated, but I remember him being super pushy on the
work hard most hours of most days.That'd be more my kind of vibe then. :)
Totally agree with your comment!
I believe the post is about going to sleep few hours early as well, so you get the same amount of sleep. For example:
Before: going to bed at 12:00 am and wake up at 7:30 am
After: going to bed at 8:30 pm and wake up at 4:00 am
who sleeps at 8:30 pm? Not even my grandfather....
It’s quite good if you’re trying to accomplish something for yourself, and if you try to do this in the evening (after a full day of work) you are not able (too tired).
The solution is to do work for yourself first (early in the morning, when everybody else sleeps), and then do the day work (that will drain however much energy you have).
Except it's not good to go against your natural circadian cycle. You cannot go against your internal clock that much.
Circadian cycle can shift over time.
With proper exercise schedule, light therapy, and planning, you can slowly shift the circadian rhythm.
And also you can make some good changes in your diet, some people can't understand that you can have a healthy sleep and not being on the bed for 8hrs.
No matter if you wake up earlier or sleep later, a little exercise and a good diet will even be more useful for your body than 2 or 3 hours more of sleep.
Shifting the circadian rhythm is possible of course but it's a myth to believe that you can do whatever with it. It is greatly determined genetically (see e.g. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/24/12/1... and referenced articles) and you cannot fully go against it. If you do advance your circadian rythm, you will always be fighting against it because it will tend to shift back to it's genetically determined natural time.
As for the diet and exercise I totally agree that it's very important as well, but if you are sleeping 5h a night you might still need the extra 2- hours :)
And anyway, why would you want to go to great lengths to go against your body? Is it really worth it? I believe not.
💯 agreeing with you!
This is a direct quote from the article:
I don’t think people are misunderstanding this. The author is literally talking about getting less sleep.
Reminder: You can disagree politely with the author.
Try it sometime.
And I am!
I'm strongly disagreeing with @boltc0rt3z , sure. Am I calling him names? Nope.