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."
完成更多任務最有效的方法之一就是早點起牀。這是不少CEO的成功祕訣，比如蘋果公司的CEO蒂姆·庫克早上4點半起牀。但是有些人真的不是“晨型人”。Flickr創始人之一卡泰麗娜·費克在彭博商業週刊中寫到“我的IQ在早上會下降百分之三四十。”

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:
有很多方法可以幫助養成早起的習慣，包括不喝含有咖啡因的飲料或是制定嚴密的晨間工作方案。而費克則另有對策，她用一個特別的睡眠時間安排來幫助自己完成工作，睡足8小時，還可以爲了女兒早上7點就起牀。

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.
我是這樣做的：我睡得真得很早，大概9到10點就上牀。半夜我會起來工作2到3小時，然後我回去繼續睡到女兒醒來。這樣我後半夜就能完整且不被打擾地睡上2到3小時。睡眠很重要。關於職場人士犧牲睡眠的壯舉有很多，我並不認同。我堅信每晚都應該睡足8小時，只要我可以就會盡力做到。只是我把8小時的睡眠分成了兩段而已。

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.
如果人們能保證充足的睡眠，就能更好地完成工作。更進一步說，那些勉強能夠靠一天幾小時睡眠支撐的人，要麼工作太忙亂，要麼工作的完成質量較低。

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.
關鍵不是強行讓自己適應不適合自己的作息時間表，而是去嘗試。分段睡眠聽起來可能很奇怪並且違反天性，但是它能夠幫助那些努力平衡工作、生活和睡眠的人得到8小時的睡眠。