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#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Do You Need Kaffine to Function in the Morning?

If you are getting just five hours of sleep a night, typically we would think about that being insufficient amounts of sleep. It's very dangerous to stay in bed awake for long periods of time and become frustrated with not being able to sleep. We are very pavlovian like as a brain in terms of our learning capacity. Your brain will re learn the association that this thing called my bed is this thing called safe and sound sleep. And i guess the analogy here would be, you would never sit at the dinner table waiting to get hungry, so why would you lie in bed waiting to sleepy? The answer is that you shouldn't.

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