It is hard to over-exaggerate the benefits of sleep for a good life.
Table of Contents
Intro: Why Learn Sleep Science? // Sleep Science Explosion
Part 1: Sleep and Learning // Learning Physical Skills, Applied Creativity, Irony of Early School
Part 2: Sleep and Happiness // Fatigue and Pessimism, The Neural Reward System, Common Sense
Part 3: Sleep Experimentation 101 // Why It’s Hard to Change Sleep Habits, Track Your Sleep, Smartphone Out of Hand’s Reach
Outro: Keep It Simple and Sleep
Intro: Why Learn About Sleep Science?
Sleep makes life worth living.
It has been proven to have an impact on emotional regulation, with more sleep leading to greater emotional control and happier feelings. Sleep helps you store new facts and names in your long term memory.
You’ll feel better and remember more if you get more sleep.
Unfortunately, sleep is at odds with hustle culture. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” is the sort of mindset that I lived in during my formative years. My crew was made up of some the most ambitious musicians at Berklee College of Music during the…
