Comments on: No- I Dont Sleep

By: stephanierox316

stephanierox316 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:56:59 +0000

im an 11 year old kid and i dont sleep at night WHATS WRONG WITH ME?!~?!?! help mee…

By: Chris Brogan How To Be Human Talk at Disney Social Media Moms | Murray Newlands - Marketing Blog

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:21:57 +0000

[...] Write better blog posts by making them tighter, using and highlighting subtitles and using bulleting. Be helpful is the number one piece of advice Chris said he would give the us. The quote from Liz Strauss rang in the hall, “Little bloggers grow up”. He also mentioned time management and pointed us to his post, No I Don’t Sleep. [...]

By: fledgling’s archive, november 2009 « Makurrah's Blog

fledgling’s archive, november 2009 « Makurrah's Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:29:51 +0000

[...] Do you ever sleep? – http://www.chrisbrogan.com/no-i-dont-sleep/ [...]

By: philsimonsystems

philsimonsystems — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:42:33 +0000

It's easier to forgo sleep if you like what you do and are good at it. You qualify on both levels, Chris. I read Trust Agents recently and reviewed it favorably on my site. Keep on keeping on.

By: philsimonsystems

philsimonsystems — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:42:33 +0000

It's easier to forgo sleep if you like what you do and are good at it. You qualify on both levels, Chris. I read Trust Agents recently and reviewed it favorably on my site. Keep on keeping on.

By: gliss

gliss — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:45:56 +0000

I don't get as much sleep as I'd like to. I think we need sleep to be healthy people and that long-term shortage of sleep is not good for us.

Chris, I very much admire what you do and I think your book Trust Agents is the best one out there in this general topic but... you have the signs of a workaholic. Just wait. One day, you will pay a price. I hope it's not too serious (such as a heart attack or serious diabetes, or...) because lack of sleep does other whacky things that over time can be very damaging.

Your work clearly consumes you and it's why you do so well and have the success you have. I'm not knocking your motives or your incredible talents and the hard work you do.

I mean my comments with all care and not as a pointing finger but you "appear" to be addicted to your work and any addiction is still addiction.

Take care of yourself. You're still young.

By: The Big Secret « in over your head

The Big Secret « in over your head — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:34:54 +0000

[...] their Twitter account. If they tweet a lot, there’s no chance I’m working with them (Chris doesn’t sleep, so he’s obviously the [...]

By: When You Hit the Wall | Justin R. Levy

When You Hit the Wall | Justin R. Levy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:42:47 +0000

[...] It’s natural especially if you keep laser focus and pride yourself on the lack of sleep you get. Sometimes you have to just accept your fate and enjoy a day off of the grid and away from the [...]

By: A New Marketing Commentator » Sleepless in Social Media

A New Marketing Commentator » Sleepless in Social Media — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:20:50 +0000

[...] the king of social media himself, Chris Brogan (with whom Justin works). Wrote Chris in a post almost a year ago… “I am asked about twice or three times a day about my sleep patterns. This [...]

By: Steve Hopkins

Steve Hopkins — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:16:36 +0000

For a moment, consider that we do our real work during sleep times and become conscious only to deal with our existential selves before plunging back into work once again.

I watched a great documentary the other day (http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/109508/Dead-T...) called Dead Tired which focused on the science of sleep and why we should all get more. Turns out, memory is tightly linked with sleep. I saw it as something like this: During the day we collect a huge number of 'things' – we absorb the world, how it works, different experiences and learnings. We take these with us all day, in something I picture as a mental inbox. We only process these and 'download' them into our opperating system when we sleep and go through REM sleep. To do this properly, we need to go through a standard sleep cycle, which naturally takes about 8 hours.

I always got funny about the recommended sleep thing being '8 hours' – thinking it was just the machine telling me 8 hours was what I should get rather than what I needed. But, turns out, the body rules and it needs about 8 hours a night to fully download.

This, in a small way, is why some of us (me included here, I'm not a perfect sleeper either) have things running through out heads at night. It's a function of how creative, inspired etc etc we are, but also the fact that our RAM is full to the brim and instead is trying to process everything quickly and getting nowhere fast.

Sleep is important and good sleep even more so. Chris, we don't care if you don't blog or reply to our tweet – but we do care if you fall ill because of your beautiful desires to keep up with all of us. :) Take care of yourself man, it's what we all want.