Sleep on it

Johnnie Moore

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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Piers Young blogs on the sleep advantage.

The hard (and repeated) lesson seems to be this: if you want to be creative you need to do whatever you can to stop thinking about the problem. Get some rest, go for a walk – anything – but if you stay up all night working on it, chances you’ll be a blank slate.

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