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The Top Athlete’s Approach to Peak Leadership Performance with Jeff Salzenstein #shorts

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (Jeff Salzenstein, posted by Ashish Kothari) arguing that insufficient sleep undermines leaders’ ability to create trust, respect, and psychological safety because sleep-deprived people are more irritated and on edge. The speaker emphasizes that chronically short sleep (example: sleeping five hours nightly over decades) prevents nightly brain “cleaning” and raises long-term risks—diabetes, cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s—urging leaders to connect sleep habits to performance and long-term health.

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If you're not sleeping, you're not going to be able to create the trust and respect and the safe environment because people are going to be more irritated and on edge. And so it fascinates me that we have some of the smartest people in the world creating amazing businesses, and somehow they don't make that correlation that their sleep is hurting their performance. Oh, I can sleep when I'm dead. Or what if you wake up when you're 75 years old and you have Alzheimer's? Well, guess what? If you slept five hours a sleep five hours a night for 40 years, you're not cleaning out your brain every single night. So it's interesting to me that like, very intelligent, driven, super smart people are not making the connection. That disease down the road is coming if you're not taking care of your sleep, whether it's diabetes, cancer, dementia, Alzheimer's, it's all connected.