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Polyphasic sleep and Steve Pavlina

Irine Yu asked me whether I’d follow Steve Pavlina and experiment with polyphasic sleep. I told her I had no plans of doing so because I like having a relatively flexible schedule. Life’s not about having more time. It’s about doing more with that time.

I’m glad Steve clarified that he’s not doing it because he wants to
squeeze extra hours out of each day, but because he wants to see if he
can hack it. It’s a good idea to keep your brain flexible. Step out of
your comfort zone. My fun braintwisting thing was learning Dvorak,
just for kicks. Who cared whether it made me faster or not? I just
wanted to know if I could reprogram my muscular memory. ;) That was
cool.

So get out there and stretch your brain!

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/3099

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