The moments before sleep can provide a rare retreat from a jam-packed day for highly successful people.
For many CEOs, execs, and other high achievers, the day begins extremely early and is crammed with emails, meetings, and events. But the evenings can be a time to unwind with a good book. Or a magazine. Or newspaper. Some of them even curl up with their email.
From paperbacks to tweets, here's what 17 super successful people read before calling it a night.
Alison Griswold contributed to a previous version of this article.
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Tim Armstrong tries to always read a book to his two young daughters.
The AOL CEO once told the Guardian that he generally gets home around 8 p.m., and then sits down to read a book to his daughters. "They usually win and get two or three books," he admitted. He tries to go to bed by 11 p.m. to get six hours of sleep.
Bill Gates has said he reads for an hour every night, even when he gets home late.
Back in the 90s, Microsoft's cofounder told the Seattle Times that he considers reading at night to be "part of falling asleep."
He loves good books (here's his 2015 summer reading list) and his reading topics range from public health to the history of shipping containers. Gates considers himself a very fast reader, despite never taking a speed-reading course.
John Carney mulls great thinkers as he falls asleep.
"I'm somewhat obsessed with ancient philosophy, mostly Plato, Socrates, and Xenophon," the Wall Street Journal writer told The Wire in 2013. He said he does most of this type of reading before going to bed. "Unless it's Sunday night," he added, "in which case I'm watching 'The Walking Dead' or 'Homeland.'"
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