Unbelievable: Secret to success may lie in your sleeping habits

Traditional research advises people between 18-64 years old get seven to nine hours of sleep for a healthy lifestyle. New studies are showing that some of the most successful and smartest people in the world rarely even get half of that amount of sleep a night.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Some of the world's brightest people have the strangest sleeping habits, that fall well below the recommended level of sleep.

 The former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher is believed to have only received four hours of sleep each night.

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The "grandfather of electricity," Nikola Tesla, is said to have only two hours of sleep a night, while an Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi typically sleeps two to four hours a night.

The United States' very own Barack Obama is reported as sleeping six hours a night.

Although Bill Gates averages out at seven hours of sleep a night, billionaire Donald Trump only gets three to four hours.

"You often read and hear stories of successful individuals, especially in business, boasting about how much they get done while the rest of us are tucked up in bed," explained Made to Measure Blinds, the group who gathered information on sleep cycles and created charts. "We want to compare these individuals against data from other people working in those sectors."

Alternative sleeping patterns are becoming more common; people are finding they don't have to get unbroken sleep in order to get their full rest.

"Though often relying on anecdotal evidence, there have been reported cases of alternative sleeping patterns that have been used to apparent success," explained group.

Former British prime minister, Winston Churchill, would sleep four hours at night and then take a 90-minute nap around noon.

A more radical example lies with Leonardo Da Vinci; he would take 20 to 40-minute naps every four hours.

However, some research points to interrupted sleep as physically detrimental, the same as having no sleep at all.

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"The study linked interrupted sleep patterns and compromised cognitive abilities, shortened attention spans and negative moods," according to the Daily Mail.

Sleeping the recommended hours is linked to better health altogether. People who get more sleep have a greater chance at better mental health, they are less likely to be overweight and develop high blood pressure.

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