sleep deprivation

As you may notice, your productive output fluctuates throughout your work day. Productivity tends to dwindle right after 12pm until approximately 4PM. On the contrary, the early morning hours are the ones where your energy is at its highest. This curve is due to your circadian rhythm. Your internal clock follows a roughly 24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological and behavioral processes.
Knowing when to expect “down time” will let you to plan your work days accordingly, such us leaving your brain-intensive tasks for morning hours and doing non priority work in the afternoons.

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Remember those sleepless nights in college? Well, they probably weren’t the best idea to get past that upcoming exam. New research from the University of California (Berkeley) has found that taking a 90 minute nap during the day can boost the brain’s capacity to store new facts by 40 percent. 

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