早起新武器：分段睡眠助你工作生活更高效

One of the most effective strategies for getting more done is simply to wake up earlier. It's the secret of many successful CEOs, like Apple's Tim Cook, who gets up at 4:30 in the morning. But some of us just aren't morning people, like Flickr's Caterina Fake, who writes in Bloomberg Businessweek that "my IQ drops 30 percent to 40 percent in the early morning."

完成更多任务最有效的方法之一就是早点起床。这是不少CEO的成功秘诀，比如苹果公司的CEO蒂姆·库克早上4点半起床。但是有些人真的不是“晨型人”。Flickr创始人之一卡泰丽娜·费克在彭博商业周刊中写到“我的IQ在早上会下降百分之三四十。”

There are strategies to overcome that, including skipping caffeine or creating a rigorous morning routine, but Fake has an alternative, unusual sleep schedule that lets her get her work done, fit in 8 hours of sleep, and be up for her daughter at 7 AM:

有很多方法可以帮助养成早起的习惯，包括不喝含有咖啡因的饮料或是制定严密的晨间工作方案。而费克则另有对策，她用一个特别的睡眠时间安排来帮助自己完成工作，睡足8小时，还可以为了女儿早上7点就起床。

I worked it out like this: I go to bed really early, around 9 or 10 p.m. I wake in the middle of the night and work for two or three hours. Then I go back to bed and sleep until my ­daughter wakes up. So I get two or three hours of sleep late at night that are completely ­uninterrupted. It’s ­important to sleep. There’s a lot of bravura in business about how little people sleep. I don’t subscribe to that. I’m a big ­believer in getting eight hours every night, if I can. I just do it in shifts.

我是这样做的：我睡得真得很早，大概9到10点就上床。半夜我会起来工作2到3小时，然后我回去继续睡到女儿醒来。这样我后半夜就能完整且不被打扰地睡上2到3小时。睡眠很重要。关于职场人士牺牲睡眠的壮举有很多，我并不认同。我坚信每晚都应该睡足8小时，只要我可以就会尽力做到。只是我把8小时的睡眠分成了两段而已。

People simply work better when they get more sleep. Even the ones who somehow manage on just a few hours a night are either headed for a crash, or are simply doing lower-quality work.

如果人们能保证充足的睡眠，就能更好地完成工作。更进一步说，那些勉强能够靠一天几小时睡眠支撑的人，要么工作太忙乱，要么工作的完成质量较低。

The key might not be to try to contort yourself into a schedule that doesn't work for you, but to experiment. Sleeping in shifts might seem odd and counterintuitive, but it can help people who struggle to balance work, life, and sleep, to get their 8 hours.

关键不是强行让自己适应不适合自己的作息时间表，而是去尝试。分段睡眠听起来可能很奇怪并且违反天性，但是它能够帮助那些努力平衡工作、生活和睡眠的人得到8小时的睡眠。