To all Entrepreneurs, Thinkers, and Doers
So, I was once a bullet-proof unstoppable entrepreneur, nothing would get in my way, including sleep.
We used to always say: "Plenty of time to sleep in the grave!"
We ran a global 7x24 SaaS Cloud business, had lots of clients, and always under-resourced even at 700 people. We all prided ourselves of working Dog years, or 7 years in one.
So after one heart-attack while sleeping on a plane, only place to get any sleep.... I started to figure out my own head.
How does it work?
Why do I remember some dreams, and not others?
Why do I have some dreams after watching or reading something that is related to what I watched or read?
So after lots of practicing and recording my dreams, and what I remember, I had a small idea on what my Head could really do.
The one day about 15 years ago after working a long 18 hour day, and consuming a large diet Rockstar Energy Drink, the following happened:
It was hard to go to sleep, because my brain kept focusing on the problem I had been working on for the previous days. Well I finally fell asleep but had one of those "Ground-hog Day" dreams, but it was about my problem I was trying to solve. It would go down all sorts of thought patterns and then stop and start-over, this was rather disconcerting to have the same dream start-over and over again, but I noticed that there where small deviations in the patterns of thought. It felt like it lasted forever, but I actually did get some REM sleep, and in the morning I woke up, with 2-3 answers to my problem in my head...wowza...
I Just Hacked my Head....
So I tried it again and again, and it kept working....
How do I think this all works?
- The high-dose of Vitamin B-6 and B-12 keep the mind awake, without accelerating body function like caffeine does, and it also focus the neuron chemical pathways.
- Just before sleep preloading you mind with the problem will set the stage for your concentrated iterative subconscious to take over, and start processing, instead of just wandering around the halls regurgitating bad movies.
- For bigger problems that have large multivariates, you may need to associate variables to shapes, things, colors, etc.... This is for recollection when you wake up.
So try it sometime, it may be a bit disconcerting at first, but for me a few friends it works great for the really big difficult problems.
So work Smart, not hard...
Best to all