19 Successful People Who Barely Sleep

19 Successful People Who Barely Sleep
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2009 file photo, Marissa Mayer, who was named Yahoo Inc.'s CEO on July 16, accepts her award at Glamour magazine's 2009 Women of the Year awards at Carnegie Hall in New York. Yahoo is giving Mayer a compensation package worth more than $59 million over the next several years. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2009 file photo, Marissa Mayer, who was named Yahoo Inc.'s CEO on July 16, accepts her award at Glamour magazine's 2009 Women of the Year awards at Carnegie Hall in New York. Yahoo is giving Mayer a compensation package worth more than $59 million over the next several years. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

Researchers claim that people need around 8 hours of sleep to function properly.
But that's not true for everybody. A small group (1 to 3 percent) of the population are among the "sleepless elite" who are able to get by happily on just a few hours of sleep.

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