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dgallagher on Sept 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

This might sound a little weird, but try putting an large ice-pack on your head while you're lying in bed, ready to go to sleep:

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/17/tip-for-insomniacs-coo...

I've done it a few times and after about 10 minutes, any racing-thoughts in my brain dissipate, and it becomes much easier to go to sleep.

swores on Sept 20, 2011 [–]

I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing to get rid of it.

Maybe a better balance is needed, but I think there's a real link with the kind of person who can't sleep for thinking of work, and success in what they are doing.

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