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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Double Edged Sword in Insomnia?

Don't go to bed any earlier because then you're just probably your chronotype, your biological rhythm doesn't want you to be asleep. Naps are a double edged sword in the sense that napping will just take the edge off your sleepiness. Having a wind down routine is the other thing that's critical for me. I started meditating and that was six years ago and I haven't stopped. The meditation app companies were perplexed at this at first. They want people to meditate during the day. But when they looked at their usage statistics, they found that they would have people in the morning meditating. And then there's a huge number of people using the meditation app

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