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Katnapper, you clearly didn't
Sun, May 19 2013 at 1:01 AM
Katnapper, you clearly didn't read much beyond the beginning of the piece I linked to - Edison slept between 5-7 hours a night and often took 2 naps a day, which adds up to close to 10 hours - perhaps an estimate, but not too far off the mark. Of course he wanted to be THOUGHT of as someone who slept less - only 4-5 hours - but the reality didn't prove that out. He wrote a great deal about sleeping minmal amounts, but it's not what he actually lived, and slept quite a lot. More to the point regarding what I wrote about (which was more about the time that we sleep, not amounts of sleep), was the fact that he had atypical sleeping patterns: As quoted in the piece I linked to: "For two days, and nights and twelve hours — sixty hours in all — he worked continuously without sleep, until he had conquered the difficulty; and then he slept for thirty hours. He often works all night, thinking best, he says, when the rest of the world sleeps."
My grandma always used to eat
Fri, May 03 2013 at 1:55 PM
My grandma always used to eat apples that way and tell me how wasteful I was being throwing half the apple out!
I agree - I think showing
Thu, Apr 11 2013 at 3:05 PM
I agree - I think showing respect to anyone who is helping/assisting/serving you is important - those jobs are tough and too-often thankless, plus they don't pay well! The way I see people treat cashiers and waitstaff is so offensive it makes me want to apologize FOR the rude people sometimes!
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