Health experts always preach that one must sleep 8 hours a day along with taking small naps of half an hour to one a couple of times when one finds himself tiring. I never slept for more than 7 hours in the past 3 months (barring few days of discontinuity as was 2 days back). But suddenly I realised 2 days back that life should be chill in college, so I broke all my habits and slept with utmost laziness of more than 14 hours. This venture may be termed as an experiment with my habits and to see what comes as an outcome.
I say with all my confidence and belief that the only thing that can cause hindrance to one's path is SLEEP and the only thing that can make one person beat another is SLEEP. I have realised that sleep is the only thing that has distinguished all sorts of people into different economic categories. The one who manages to conquer his hold over sleep is the ultimate winner of life.
So let's start with the most famous quote: "Early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Examining critically this line, I would say that the term: 'early' is totally relative in modern day's world. Gone are those days when man used to sleep at night only because no artificial electric lights were there. But in today's world, it is in our hand to decide when you are 'early' to go to sleep and 'early' to rise. Or more clearly, reference of your sleep time can be shifted to any point of 24 hours, so in this way even if you sleep at 4 AM, be confident that this reference is perfect according to you.
OH WAIT !
DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS TARGETED AT COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY, ANY NON-COLLEGE STUDENT SHOULD DIRECTLY CLOSE THIS TAB. SERIOUSLY.
Next, the main thing for which we are roaming throughout the day is to achieve our goal. (The one who has no goal for any single day, is a fuckin' idiot in literal sense). So now comes the fact that how sleep is related to goal. As I play with words, SLEEP and GOAL are the terms that shapes your SOUL. To coordinate well with sleep (or time, here) and goal, one must be clear with variety of things.
Let say you are learning something and it entices you everytime something new about it. You are totally mad about it (If, at any point of your college life, there is nothing that makes you crazy to think about and you never felt any concept/idea/subject/art/category/topic that makes you feel goosebumps, then my friend you are fuckin' idiot). If you are falling in the former situation, then the only thing that will come in your way is sleep. My mantra in that situation would be to manipulate your timing of sleep , keeping in mind the fact that you are made for achieving goals and sleep is your enemy.The best way to defeat any enemy is to befriend him. So befriend sleep, by not telling her that she is your enemy,actually. This befriending can be done by going to sleep at any point of day, by makes your nights and days equal by purpose in terms of sleeping, by making your mind 'on' while waking and 'figuratively' off while sleeping.
The reason why this weird algo will work is because you are making sleep relative w.r.t. time. The reason why you are doing this stupid thing is because you are committed to complete any long-term goal (step-by-step). The reason why I choose sleep as my weapon again sleep is that man is creative in his extreme level while sleeping. But that creativeness depends on what you were doing a few hours before sleeping. Now as you are sleeping very irregularly (but beware duration should be at least 5 hours) , you are stressed. Probably you will get to sleep very fast. As you are already 'burdened' by your commitment to achieve your goals, your enemy will help you to manipulate things will in your mind. And who knows you might get an idea to solve any problem which was practically unsolvable if you would have been waking at that (or sleeping in more relaxed manner).
So ultimately, I want to stress the fact sleep is the weapon which one should use judiciously keeping in mind the practical limitations (which I won't explain as one should experiment all things possible).
I say with all my confidence and belief that the only thing that can cause hindrance to one's path is SLEEP and the only thing that can make one person beat another is SLEEP. I have realised that sleep is the only thing that has distinguished all sorts of people into different economic categories. The one who manages to conquer his hold over sleep is the ultimate winner of life.
So let's start with the most famous quote: "Early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Examining critically this line, I would say that the term: 'early' is totally relative in modern day's world. Gone are those days when man used to sleep at night only because no artificial electric lights were there. But in today's world, it is in our hand to decide when you are 'early' to go to sleep and 'early' to rise. Or more clearly, reference of your sleep time can be shifted to any point of 24 hours, so in this way even if you sleep at 4 AM, be confident that this reference is perfect according to you.
OH WAIT !
DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS TARGETED AT COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY, ANY NON-COLLEGE STUDENT SHOULD DIRECTLY CLOSE THIS TAB. SERIOUSLY.
Next, the main thing for which we are roaming throughout the day is to achieve our goal. (The one who has no goal for any single day, is a fuckin' idiot in literal sense). So now comes the fact that how sleep is related to goal. As I play with words, SLEEP and GOAL are the terms that shapes your SOUL. To coordinate well with sleep (or time, here) and goal, one must be clear with variety of things.
Let say you are learning something and it entices you everytime something new about it. You are totally mad about it (If, at any point of your college life, there is nothing that makes you crazy to think about and you never felt any concept/idea/subject/art/category/topic that makes you feel goosebumps, then my friend you are fuckin' idiot). If you are falling in the former situation, then the only thing that will come in your way is sleep. My mantra in that situation would be to manipulate your timing of sleep , keeping in mind the fact that you are made for achieving goals and sleep is your enemy.The best way to defeat any enemy is to befriend him. So befriend sleep, by not telling her that she is your enemy,actually. This befriending can be done by going to sleep at any point of day, by makes your nights and days equal by purpose in terms of sleeping, by making your mind 'on' while waking and 'figuratively' off while sleeping.
The reason why this weird algo will work is because you are making sleep relative w.r.t. time. The reason why you are doing this stupid thing is because you are committed to complete any long-term goal (step-by-step). The reason why I choose sleep as my weapon again sleep is that man is creative in his extreme level while sleeping. But that creativeness depends on what you were doing a few hours before sleeping. Now as you are sleeping very irregularly (but beware duration should be at least 5 hours) , you are stressed. Probably you will get to sleep very fast. As you are already 'burdened' by your commitment to achieve your goals, your enemy will help you to manipulate things will in your mind. And who knows you might get an idea to solve any problem which was practically unsolvable if you would have been waking at that (or sleeping in more relaxed manner).
So ultimately, I want to stress the fact sleep is the weapon which one should use judiciously keeping in mind the practical limitations (which I won't explain as one should experiment all things possible).
