Commentary by management consultant Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Nappers of the World, Recline!
To be an enthusiastic napper in 21st-century North America is to be out of step with your time and place. In most of the industrialized world, a nap is seen as a sign of weakness, either physical or moral. The very young and the very old nap. Sick people nap.
Bums nap. Healthy, productive adults do not nap.
We are a culture that celebrates action, doing, achieving, an attitude that leads to a disdain for sleep in general. We stay up late and get up early. We pull all-nighters. We'll sleep when we're dead, and in the meantime there's always a Starbucks on the corner.
Read all of Kurt Kleiner’s sage article on the virtues of napping by clicking here.
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2 comments:
Ah, but I can't get a good night's sleep if I nap during the day.
Go forth and discover ye the wonders of Tylenol PM.
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