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Sleep — An Underrated Power
The importance of a good night’s sleep
I remember when I was 18 years old (2015), when I started college, I used to stay up all night If I had a test to take the next morning or a project to deliver. Several times I stayed up all night to study for a test — or play GTA V Online — and this bad habit intensified when I fell in love with programming and decided to become a full-stack self-employed developer, at which point I would spend more than two nights in a row awake. I fueled my body with coffee and my brain fed itself on dopamine (the substance responsible for the feeling of pleasure) because I was obsessed with programming and thought sleeping was a waste of time.
Today (March 2022), even after reaching my professional goal, I’m still terrible with my sleep habits. Until recently, my sleep logs on my smartphone said I slept an average of 2 hours and 50 minutes a day. Knowing that a man should sleep an average of 7 to 8 hours a day, these records left me scared, and for the first time in my memory, I was worried about my sleep and my health.
For 3 weeks now, I have dedicated myself solely and exclusively to improving the time and quality of my sleep, creating a routine and nighttime ritual that help me relax my body, calm my mind and signal that it’s time to sleep and I’m fascinated by the fact that, in such a short…
