Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue-but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect. (Timothy Ferriss)

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue-but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

Timothy Ferriss

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