Sleep isn’t optional—it’s foundational by Arianna Huffington.
Briefest Summary.
- Our most underrated health habit. We are how we sleep. Research shows that LARGE numbers of people are sleep deprived and are so used to it, they don’t even realise how shitty they are feeling.
- Make it your Priority #1.
- If you can’t get done what needs to be done in your 16 hour Awake Window, your priorities are not aligned.
- Let there be less light. Before & during sleep. Those photons are telling you not to go to sleep. It is an Anti Sleeping Pill. Digital Sunset.
- Sleep cool, 15-20c.
- Meditate. A 2009 Stanford study found that a six-week mindfulness meditation course helped people who have trouble sleeping fall asleep twice as quickly, in fifteen minutes instead of thirty-three minutes.
- Rich folks sleep well, Bezos, Buffet, etc.
- Athletes sleep well, Federer, Le Bron James, Tom Brady, etc.
- Alarm to go to sleep, not wake up. It’s your most important appointment. Alarm = an anxious awareness of danger = no way to start your day
- ‘Finish every day, and be done with it. . . . You have done what you could—some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as fast as you can, tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson