The Insane Sleep Schedule Tesla and Da Vinci Used to Boost Creativity

This daily routine and alternative sleep cycles that both Da Vinci and Tesla followed may surprise you.

Have you ever wondered if the super geniuses of history had anything in common about their daily routines to help them boost their creativity, and help them become the genius we know them as today? It turns out there are a lot of shared creativity boosting exercises used by some of the greatest minds, however – some of them are more… sane than others.

Leonardo Da Vinci and Nikola Tesla both shared the same insane polyphasic sleep schedule called the “uberman.” Where they would rarely sleep for more than 2 hours a day; they saw it as a way to increase productivity, fit more working hours into the day, and help become more creative.

One of the mysterious ways they would boost their creative and inventive genius is through a state between sleeping and wakefulness called a hypnagogic state. If fact, some other prominent minds also attributed some of their creative genius to this state: Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Isaac Newton, Salvador Dali. Many of which had alternative sleep schedules. Could it have been in part what made them become a genius, on increased their creative energy levels? Or is this one life hack that could cause more harm than good?

Maybe an easier first step to becoming a genius would be to check out our previous video on speed reading:

   • Speed Reading: Debunking Myths and 3 ...  

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