Sleep and Burnout | AMA #2 - Ask Me Anything with Lex Fridman
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0:0 Sleep and Burnout0:40 Optimal Performance
1:40 Burnout
00:00:00.000 | Alona asks, "How many hours of sleep do you normally manage to get to your schedule? How do you avoid burning out?"
00:00:06.400 | Well first
00:00:10.280 | Heaven is
00:00:13.680 | nine and a half hours
00:00:16.280 | On a day, maybe there's a little bit of rain for some reason even though you live in the city
00:00:24.500 | It's quiet an occasional car slowly driving by
00:00:29.600 | Heaven is getting those nine and a half. No, heaven is the first cup of coffee after the nine and a half hours of sleep
00:00:37.000 | Yeah
00:00:40.240 | Optimal performance wise I like to get seven or eight hours of sleep.
00:00:45.640 | I don't often get that amount of sleep though, and I think the rest is just all mental. I still often pull
00:00:54.340 | Nights where it's one, two, three hours of sleep. I frequently pull all-nighters
00:00:59.440 | maybe an average of about
00:01:01.440 | 10 to 15 all-nighters a year
00:01:04.680 | All have to do with deadlines and just focus. A few occasional rare beautiful all-nighters are
00:01:13.120 | sort of
00:01:14.800 | You're so passionate. I'm so passionate about a particular idea. I just can't wait
00:01:19.040 | Can't wait to see it work and I stay up all night, you know
00:01:27.880 | Through noon in the afternoon and then maybe go to bed early next night, you know
00:01:33.280 | Go to bed at like 9 p.m. Or something like that
00:01:35.720 | Burnout too. Ah
00:01:39.160 | You know what I don't believe in burnout
00:01:42.040 | It's not like a I think I think there's just a voice of laziness that can be defeated
00:01:49.040 | with
00:01:52.080 | with a sword of
00:01:54.080 | focus, perseverance, determination
00:01:57.400 | And passion. I think I love everything I do. I could wash toilets. I could do manual labor anything. I just love it
00:02:04.920 | I love every moment of every day the sadness the fear all of that. That's a beautiful part of the journey
00:02:10.560 | I love it. So to me burnout doesn't even make sense. Like what are you burning out from?
00:02:15.240 | even the concept of burnout is
00:02:18.080 | Something that I love so like if you feel like you're burning out
00:02:23.440 | That that's beautiful too. That's part of the human experience. I love that whole thing and when you're passionate about everything, what the hell does anything
00:02:30.800 | Burnout kind of says like I'm I think because I've known close close people to me that have suffered from depression. I
00:02:39.200 | think depression is
00:02:41.880 | Sort of
00:02:44.600 | actually like clinical depression is kind of the experience that I see as
00:02:49.720 | beyond
00:02:53.000 | The kind of thing that I'm talking about which is it's really you're in a place where nothing is meaning
00:02:58.420 | but to me I have never experienced a
00:03:02.920 | Moment where something is not rich of meaning and I
00:03:09.680 | think David
00:03:12.600 | Foster Wallace said, you know, the key to life is
00:03:19.760 | To be unboreable
00:03:21.760 | Meaning it's impossible to make you bored of anything you do and I'm unboreable of anything
00:03:28.220 | I do. I love it. My face might not express it. I got a Russian sort of
00:03:33.240 | Sad suffering face most of the time but I'm actually happy on the inside. I'm like a like a Kiwi
00:03:43.780 | Ugly on the outside
00:03:48.560 | Sweet and glorious on the inside again that that's one question. I'm not even answering it correctly. Okay
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