Sleep Deprivation Impedes Productivity
Brain
needs rest at least six hours a day for adult. Taking a rest six hours a day is
a standard for the brain to work again. Sleep is the only method which helps
the brain to take a rest. You have one night to give your brain a rest
sufficiently. You start to close your eyes and begin sleeping. Before sleeping,
ascertain that you have turned off your television, switch off the lamp, and do
not forget to make sure that you are not listening to the music due to the fact
that brain always catches information are surrounding by sensory organs. The
light of television and lamp will penetrate your eyelids and the optical nerve
will continue what it catches to the brain. Additionally, you are listening to
the music when you are sleeping. It will force your brain all night to process
the information from the music which you listen to. It means that however you
sleep along night, actually your body which only takes a rest but your brain does
not. When your brain can take a rest well, it will regenerate hormones which
contribute your brain to think, create and convey an idea. One research in
Harvard found that sleep sufficiently can recover the activity of your brain.
Sleep sufficiently is the natural method to freshen the brain and definitely,
you can work in focus. On the contrary, sleep deprivation will impede brain to regenerate
hormones and certainly it will impede productivity.
Sleep
deprivation will impede your productivity because your brain cannot regenerate
hormones by carrying amino acids from your blood and producing cortisol. Both
amino acids and cortisol are very useful for your brain in working. Amino acids
are used to give your brain a permanent memory. Carrying amino acids from blood
to your brain will give a permanent memory if you can let your brain to do this
process maximally by sleeping well at least six hours a day. Person who gets
sleep deprivation will never get the permanent memory. It impedes him in
producing good project. For example: Student who sleeps sufficiently will be
easier remembering material than student who does not sleep sufficiently
because the amount of amino acids which is transported is different. Some
observers said that brain has to take a rest at least five to nine hours a day.
It means to increase the regeneration of hormones in order to make our brain
work maximally. They showed the data that in fact; Albert Einstein slept nine
hours a day while Thomas Edison slept five hours a day. Einstein and Edison were
scientists who had a big role in science. As scientists, they cared so much to
give their brain enough rest to regenerate its hormones. If they had not had
enough sleep, they would have not invented their inventions. In some articles
told that Einstein had got insomnia, he tried everything in order to sleep. He
found cola and drank it before sleeping. Miraculously, he could sleep well. These
two scientists are the evidence that the sufficiency of sleep will bring about any
productivity.
Another
important hormone is cortisol which is produced by the brain after midnight to
dawn. Cortisol is very important in reducing stress and bad mood. Cortisol is
not only reducing stress and bad mood but also increasing concentration. Person
who sleeps after midnight will never produce cortisol in his brain. Of course,
he will be bad-temperated and will look older than person of the age. Take the
example: programmer more often sleeps after midnight than teacher. Teacher can
finish his job before midnight and then goes to sleep whereas programmer cannot
finish his job before midnight and he will go to bed late or he will stay all
night to finish his job. In this case, teacher’s brain produces cortisol more
than programmer’s brain. Sure, teacher looks younger than programmer. I have
two persons whom I will compare to. The first person is my cousin, and the
second one is my mom. My cousin is a programmer. He is twenty five years old
now. My mom is a teacher. She teaches in kindergarten. She is forty four now. I
do not know before, why my cousin looks older than my mom. I guess that he
undergoes his life seriously, but I know now that he often stays all night to
work in front of laptop and finish his job. His habit is the reason why he
looks older than my mom because his brain never produces the cortisol while my
mom finishes her job at eight pm and she continues to sleep. Another difference
is the capacity of concentration. My mom has more concentration than my cousin.
My cousin often drives in wrong way, takes the wrong tools when he wants to eat,
and calls his sisters’ name wrongly. It is sleep deprivation effect.
I agree that sleep deprivation impedes productivity
because brain has not enough rest to regenerate its hormones. These hormones
are very useful to contribute brain to think, create and convey an idea. Based
on several articles and books I have read, I found that sleep sufficiently is
very crucial for giving our brain rest. Brain needs rest because it has to
regenerate its hormones by carrying amino acids from the blood to the brain and
producing cortisol. Brain transports amino acids from the blood to increase the
capacity of memory, so that it can keep a number of memories for long time.
Person who sleeps well at least six hours a day has a good capacity in
remembering anything. Cortisol is very important to reduce stress and bad mood.
It also can increase concentration. Cortisol is produced between midnight to
dawn. Therefore, we have to go bed and sleep well before midnight. Person who
sleeps before midnight, his brain will produce cortisol more than person who
sleeps after midnight and it affects the first person will look younger than
the second one. In short, if you want to be productive, do not let sleep
deprivation impedes your productivity.
References
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Gangguan Tidur Lainnya. Jakarta, Indonesia: PT Elex Media Komputondo.
Buchner, R. J. (2010). Einstein’s Insomnia. Retrieved from http://www.trademarkia.com.
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