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.

Sleep

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

Be sure to check out the diagrams below.  I talk about these visuals during the podcast.

Sleep Cycle

Sleep Patterns

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