Cat-napping — taking advantage of the little spaces — is a super-power, not a weakness.

But you said nothing when Trump did similar. https://t.co/Ggv2IZH0w3

— V Daniels (@funkapunk) October 22, 2022

Here's a 2021 column in The Guardian: "From Aristotle to Einstein: a brief history of power nappers/Churchill took naps for at least an hour, Da Vinci for 20 minutes and Dalí for just a second" by Caroline Davies."

Salvador Dalí, in his 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship for aspiring painters, outlined tips for the one-second micro-nap, including sitting upright, key in hand and upturned plate beneath. Once asleep, the key will drop and the ensuing clang ensures instant revival. Albert Einstein deployed a similar technique, using a spoon or pencil instead of a key.

Aristotle also extolled the virtues of this hypnagogic napping – the semi-lucid state between sleep and wake – for inspiration, declaring: “For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.”...

Ronald Reagan, however, seemed ashamed of his habit, with his wife, Nancy, denying rumours of his daily naps, afraid he would be branded lazy.

Margaret Thatcher, who got by on four hours’ sleep a night, was not immune to the lure of the catnap.... Officials were so concerned she could suffer an injury if her Daimler was forced to brake while she nodded off that they arranged for a custom-built headrest to be fitted.

Some of the greatest people sleep unconventionally. There are so many ways to sleep badly, and some ways that look bad may be deviously clever approaches to living this crazy life, where even the most brilliant must sleep. Indeed: 

Einstein claimed that he needed 10 hours of sleep at night as well as his daytime naps to fuel that amazing brain of his. Just like Dali, he practiced micro-napping, which meant that he never allowed himself to drift into stage two of sleep. To ensure this he would sit in his favourite armchair holding a pencil or spoon and begin to doze off. If the object dropped, it would make a loud clang, which would wake him up. Many great thinkers have practiced this hypnagogic nap. Waking up during the first stage of sleep taps into the part of the brain that creates vivid imagery and sensation.

Einstein held a pencil or spoon and Dalí held a key. Trump and Biden just use a reporter to wake them up before they fall into that unwanted "second stage." They awake — from Stage 1 — popping with vivid imagery and sensation. Admire them. Don't give into Reaganesque shame!