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Great Article on Tardiness from Sunday’s NYT

Posting about chronic tardiness is a slight deviation from our standard topic, sleep, but nevertheless we suspect that this may be a topic that is important to many of our readers. The New York Times published a great article by Phyllis Korkki on Sunday, “For the Chronically Late, It’s Not a Power Trip.”

As the title implies, the article suggests that, contrary to popular belief, many people who are frequently tardy are not doing so because it makes them feel important, they are doing so because that’s their nature. The article goes on to discuss the different types of people who are chronically tardy, the effects of tardiness on one’s career, and offers several tips to help combat chronic tardiness:

  • HAVE A STRATEGY
  • RELEARN HOW TO TELL TIME
  • NEVER PLAN TO BE ON TIME
  • WELCOME THE WAIT

(RTFA for specifics on implementing these strategies in your life)

Are you chronically tardy? Do you have any tips and tricks for those of us who find it difficult to make it on time? Let us know with a comment below…

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The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.

Another Sleep Blog – Cracking the Sleep Code

Here are the Snoozester Sleep Blog, we try to cover a wide-range of sleep-related topics in our posts, but we are not the only source for sleep-related info on the web. We’ve posted before about other sleep related websites, and now we would like to share another blog with you, Cracking the Sleep Code.

CtSC bills itself as, “A Resource for Sound Sleep,” and they are building up a wealth of regularly updated content covering topics such as insomnia, sleep apnea, and sleep-related quotes.

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Important:
The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.

Fall asleep at the push of a button?

Scientists believe they have discovered technique that could, one day, allow you to sleep at the push of a button. The technique, known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, involves the use of magnetic waves to stimulate slow wave activity in the brain. Research seems to indicate that this slow-wave activity is a key process that occurs during sleep, and is responsible for sleep’s “refreshing” nature. The magnetic pulses that are used to generate the slow wave activity are said to be harmless, and they can be created using a relatively simply headset type device. Giulio Tononi and Marcello Massimini, both of the University of Wisconsin, will be publishing their findings in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read the full articles used to source this post here and here.

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Important:
The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.