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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Lex Fridman Podcast
Sleep and Learning
Sleep is profoundly and very intimately related to your memory systems. Sleep before learning will essentially prepare your brain almost like a dry sponge ready to sort of initially soak up new information. You need sleep before learning to effectively imprint information into the brain to lay down fresh memory traces. The third benefit, however, is that sleep we've learned more recently is much more intelligent than we ever gave it credit for. It's almost like informational alchemy. So that you wake up the next morning with a revised, mind wide web of associations.
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