Do you ever brag about how little sleep you need or how well you handle daily stress?
Maybe you should rethink the bravado. Excess stress and sleep deprivation are more than just health concerns. They could also be silently derailing your ascent up the professional ladder. It’s a topic several LinkedIn Influencers weighed in on this week. Here’s what two of them had to say.

Travis Bradberry, president at TalentSmart
“The next time you tell yourself that you'll sleep when you're dead, realise that you're making a decision that can make that day come much sooner,” wrote Bradberry in his post Sleep Deprivation is Killing You and Your Career. “Pushing late into the night is a health and productivity killer.”
“The short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come,” he wrote, citing a Harvard Medical School study. “The negative effects of sleep deprivation are so great that people who are drunk outperform those lacking sleep.”
There are, of course, reasons we need sufficient sleep to perform better. “New re-search from the University of Rochester provides the first direct evidence for why your brain cells need you to sleep,” wrote Bradberry. “The study found that when you sleep, your brain removes toxic proteins from its neurons that are by-products of neural activity when you're awake.
Unfortunately, your brain can remove them adequately only while you're asleep. So when you don't get enough sleep, the toxic proteins remain in your brain cells, wreaking havoc by impairing your ability to think — something no amount of caffeine can fix,” Bradberry wrote.

“Skipping sleep impairs your brain function across the board. It slows your ability to process information and problem solve, kills your creativity, and catapults your stress levels and emotional reactivity,” he wrote.
Despite those harmful effects, many continue to get much less sleep than they need, wrote Bradberry. “A recent survey of Inc 500 CEOs found that half of them are sleeping less than six hours a night. And the problem doesn't stop at the top. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a third of US workers get less than six hours of sleep each night, and sleep deprivation costs US businesses more than $63b annually in lost productivity.”
Some of the side effects of not getting seven to nine hours of sleep — the amount research shows most people need to “feel sufficiently rested” — include memory lapses, impaired moral judgment, impaired immune system and higher risk of heart disease and stroke, Bradberry wrote.
Bradberry offered 10 strategies for getting better sleep. Among them: “Avoid blue light at night; wake up at the same time every day; eliminate interruptions; and learn to meditate… (Those who meditate) report that it improves the quality of their sleep and that they can get the rest they need even if they aren't able to significantly increase the number of hours they sleep.”


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