Not only sleep enhances our ability to learn as well as our career, the same applies the other way around. The more educated we are, the higher our income and our status are, the better we sleep. In a study of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, about 160,000 people were questioned. The result: 32 % of the people who were unemployed for about one year had bad sleep, people who are incapacitated for work even 52 %. Further details:
• The higher the annual income the less people suffer under sleep disturbances. (26 % of all people questioned with an annual income of under US $ 10,000 and only 8 % of all people questioned with an annual income of at least US $ 75,000).
• Participants with a college degree slept better than the ones who dropped out of high-school.
• Permanent employees, housewives, students and pensioners had the best sleep.
The reasons are manifold: there are numerous inner and outer sleep disturbing factors that influence a low socioeconomic status. Diseases, low quality of life, depressions, anxiety, unemployment are just some samples.
A vicious circle, knowing that sleep is the basic of success. Only when we are sleeping enough and healthy our brain is able to process new information and learning contents and make it available. Only than we are going to successfully complete our professional education and this in turn is basis of our professional success. But even when we are once successful in professional life, healthy sleep is and remains the decisive factor: only people with enough quality sleep are able to quickly make foresight decisions, they are more performance oriented and more efficient. Furthermore, they are looking after their health. Inevitably, lack of sleep leads to health burdens.
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