Sleeping dogs wake biography of barack obama

All jobs are not created equal. Decisions made by people in certain positions have more resonant and further-reaching consequences (i.e., airplane pilots, generals, business titans, and world leaders).

Which begs the question: How do people in these positions take care of themselves so they can better take care of the people they’re responsible for?

Knowing some health hazards linked to lack of sleep can be difficulty focusing, memory issues, fatigue, and irritability, we were curious about which tactics some of our previous POTUS’s have used to keep sleep deprivation at bay while performing one of the most relentless and consequential jobs in the world?

Here are 6 little-known sleeping habits of past US presidents (one highlight for each hour the NSF recommends we sleep per night – at minimum):

1.

“A night owl with a bedtime”

President Obama reportedly slept aro