Sleep … the last frontier. These are the voyages of “Gee do I have to?” and “I can live off of just 4 hours” craziness. The mission is to totally crash my life by going against every bit of research about what meaningful sleep actually is.
Ok ok … so I’m being a little sarcastic. But this is how I often have approached sleep in my life … something annoying … a nuisance … and something I would fight against and try to live with as little as I could. But, I’ve started to act more like a grown up of late, and put into practice what research tells me I should embrace about sleep.
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“Sleep” Show Notes
In this episode, I share on the following topics:
- The ongoing First Things Listener survey
- The Science of Sleep
- How this matters to Essentialism
- How much we need (hint: it isn’t 8 hours)
- Some tools and gadgets to help you
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