Everyone knows that a good night’s sleep helps the body to be more productive the next day. But most of us are accustomed to fooling around on our cell phones, checking emails and reading the evening news before going to bed, and that certainly does not help the quality of our sleep.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has created a rather unexpected – for one of the richest people on earth – night routine, which helps him get the sleep he needs, according to the Money Review.
“I wash the dishes every night,” the billionaire businessman and philanthropist once wrote on Reddit, when a user asked him “what is the thing you enjoy doing that no one would expect from you?” As Gates had confessed, he insists on washing the dishes even when others offer to do so.
Experts say that simple tasks such as washing dishes help a person to eliminate stress and clear his mind of what is bothering him.
Bill Gates also tends to read for an hour before bed every night. After all, most people know that reading helps even those who have a hard time sleeping at night.
And Jeff Bezos
Another billionaire seems to be following in the footsteps of Bill Gates, after Amazon’s Jeff Bezos said in an earlier interview: “I wash the dishes every night. “I’m sure it’s the sexiest thing I’m ever done.”
Science, however, justifies them. An experiment conducted in 2014 at Florida State University asked volunteers to treat dishwashing as an opportunity to meditate, concentrate and focus on the moment. After six minutes in the soap operas, the volunteers recorded a 25% increase in their inspiration and a 27% decrease in their anxiety.
Money Review
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