Getting Too Little Sleep Can Make You Selfish
So, when you do a morning radio show like we do, and you have to get up at 4am, sleep is always on your mind. So when I ran across this article I couldn’t help but stop and read it.
Research done at the University of California, Berkley is finding that too little sleep can make you selfish.
The co-author of the report, Eti Ben Simon said this, “If you’re not getting enough sleep, it doesn’t just hurt your own well-being, it hurts the well-being of your entire social circle, including strangers”
They found that a decrease in the quality of someone’s sleep from one night to the next predicted a significant decrease in the desire to help other people from one subsequent day to the next. Those with poor sleep the night prior were the ones that reported being less willing and keen to help others the following day.”
I sleep about six hours each night, less than almost all the experts say is recommended. The story goes on to say that even a modest dose of sleep deprivation, just the loss of one single hour of sleep opportunity has a very measurable and very real impact on people’s generosity, and therefore, how we function as a connected society.
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