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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus

Modern Wisdom

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How Do You Know When It's Dark?

With the rise of electronic light, now we decide when the sunset happens. If you're sitting there staring at your phone or your laptop of your television until midnight, and then you turn out the lights and it goes dark, what happens is you experience that second surge of energy. Don't look at blue shining light, the light from your laptop, if on for two hours before you go to bed, because it will wake you up. And it will also mean that when you do sleep, your sleep is a less good quality. There's plenty of other things tat are going on with sleep. I interview professor tora neilson, who runs the dream lab at the university of

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