Book: Sleep is Overrated: Short Sleepers, Simple Eaters, & The Quest for Greatness by Nate Richardson

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This book is part in a series on Exemplary Faith.

To Sleep, or Not to Sleep? That is the Question.

Sleep is overrated in the quest for greatness! This book highlights the lives of religious and civic leaders who have shown how, contrary to popular belief, self-care isn’t the top priority in life!

While we must be wise and prudent in our approach, there is a magic to learning to use the wee hours of night and morning to do things often on a higher plane than the labors of the day. Let us remember not only scientific laboratories but wisdom from the ancients and insight from inspired individuals that can give us information on matters of importance. We also demonstrate that the scientific laboratories are showing we don’t need so much sleep as has been thought.

As great ones like Benjamin Franklin have said, don’t leave for tomorrow what can be done today. Franklin also said early to bed, early to rise, but in his life he often didn’t follow that counsel and worked into the night.

The Lord, through his prophet Joseph Smith, urged us to diligence when he taught in D&C 123, “13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven— 14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness. 15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.”

Enjoy this fun, fascinating, and encouraging look into what inspired people around the world throughout history have done, and begin to explore what you can do! As Henry B. Eyring said, “I can’t be a perfect servant every hour, but I can give more effort than I thought I could.”

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