Katharina Bart, senior contributor, finews.com
«Why We Sleep» by Matthew Walker
What it is:
The author, a neuroscientist at the University of California Berkeley, argues the lack of sleep is the scourge of 21st-century public health. Not getting enough shut-eye is taking a painful toll on our physical and emotional health – we are more susceptible to cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression, anxiety, obesity, stroke, chronic pain, diabetes, and heart attacks.
Why I recommend it:
The go-big or go-home mentality prevailing among the Type-A personalities in finance has a flip side – and the industry is slow to acknowledge it. This 2017 book highlights that our brains need sleep to recover and consolidate fact-based learning and memories. This neurological approach is persuasive for the metrics-, and results-obsessed finance industry: in short, we need sleep in order to perform better.
