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#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations

Modern Wisdom

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The Effects of Insomnia

The expectation effect must why are you expecting to go to sleep? I guess that you're fulfilling the prophecy of fearing that you won't. But actually, cinder intuitively, the best way to avoid that is to try to stay awake. And like you will yourself to stay awake, you kand o cut through all that anxiety and ironically, then you get to sleep more quickly.

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