Sleep habits
Tesla claimed to never sleep more than two hours.[16]:46 However, Tesla did admit to "dozing" from time to time "to recharge his batteries."[162]
During his second year of study at Graz, Tesla developed a passion for (and became very proficient at) billiards, chess and card-playing, sometimes spending more than 48 hours in a stretch at a gaming table.[16]:43, 301 On one occasion at his laboratory, Tesla worked for a period of 84 hours without sleep or rest.[16]:208
Kenneth Swezey, a journalist whom Tesla had befriended, confirmed that Tesla rarely slept. Swezey recalled one morning when Tesla called him at 3 a.m.: "I was sleeping in my room like one dead ... Suddenly, the telephone ring awakened me ... [Tesla] spoke animatedly, with pauses, [as he] ... work[ed] out a problem, comparing one theory to another, commenting; and when he felt he had arrived at the solution, he suddenly closed the telephone."[162]
No comments:
Post a Comment