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Re:Do success stories cause false beliefs about success? by ganbatekudasai on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:42PM (#29959769)
I sleep a lot. A lot. Sleeping more than 12 hours is no problem for me. Unsurprisingly, I'm also rather hypothymiac (it runs in the family). I consider myself very successful, and others do as well.

More importantly, I also never felt that my large amount of sleep was working against me in that. Almost the opposite actually, as I can "sleep off" depression, minor sicknesses, general bad mood etc.

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Re:Do success stories cause false beliefs about success? by inter_netuser on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:31PM (#29960993)
What’s very successful for you?

I’ve described the list because I’ve met several people like that.

All but one were self made billionaires in traditional business, none of that VC unicorn nonsense.

5 hours of sleep per day, nearly 100% performance during the entire 19 hours, in some cases - for 20 years straight, under enormous stress.

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