An Excerpt from my Upcoming Book, "Nap Power: Sleep your Way To Success"

Friends,

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, "Nap Power: Sleeping your Way To Success", coming out this Fall from Simon & Schuster.

The excerpt starts after where I typed this: "+++" (for the second time).

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You've heard of Power Napping? I'm here to tell you that that is a bunch of horseshit. Guns, Germs and Crap, people. The real deal is Nap Power. Some people think anything with "power" in the front section is cool. Wrong. Put the nap first - respect the nap, and you will be pleased with the results.

When you are ready to get serious about napping, the first question you need to answer is, "What's your nap strategy?" Answering that question, is not so important, however.

Studies have shown that napping increases your bench pressing. The average person can bench press 100 pounds. But after a nap, it's like 150 pounds! That's because the Nap Power is pressing on the bench, too.

Here is something to try - something that I have found really helps. Think of an idea - then take a nap. You'll find that the idea smushes all around with the other things in your brain (squish). I call this process "smelting". Look out bench - with smelting, you can press it like crazy.

In the workplace, napping is not always accepted - it can be seen as lazy, or as a sign of drunkenness. Well, that is so, so stupid. In reality, not just your precious "company" but all of us, our way of life, are cast into danger by the Nap Gap. Schoolchildren know that Yuri Gagarin invented Sputnik while napping. In fact, almost all of the major advances of the so-called Twentieth Century were made up by people who had at some point taken a nap.

Other cultures value napping more than our so-called Western culture. In India, nappers are considered holy and covered in flower petals while they nap. The Kohl!k*ka people of southern Kwah*tcha have over 50 words for napping in their language.

So the next time your boss gives you attitude because you are napping, think about what an asshole he or she is - then take a nap.