On Sleep Procrastination: Going To Bed At A Reasonable Hour
Who Would Find This Article Most Helpful Those who find going to bed at a reasonable hour a major bottleneck to getting enough sleep and maintaining a healthy sleep schedule Those interested in thinking more deeply about their mindset with respect to sleep and productivity TL;DR Things I’ve Tried Shortened Paying someone else $0.01 for every minute later I go to bed than my bedtime. (Perhaps next time I could use SPAR ). FocusMate while doing bedtime routine. Posters reminding myself to sleep. App/Website blockers. Reading Why We Sleep . Making rough calculations on productivity loss. Things I am Currently Trying App/Website blockers. Listing out the ways I fail to go to sleep earlier and strategizing ways to combat those failure modes. Mindset Shifts Framing staying up late to meet deadlines as a high-interest loan . Recognizing planning fallacy with variability in how we feel the next day while being sleep deprived. Realizing that giving up sleep to be successful backfires