Johann Hari: Reclaiming Our Stolen Focus
A Life of Greatness
00:00
How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
Only 15% of us wake up feeling refreshed. Forty % of people are nically sleep deprived in our societies. Sleep is an incredibly active process, you can't see life as a passive thing when i'm dead asleep. When we say we're half asleep, it turns out that's not a metaphor. Your attention deteriorates as much as if you had got legally drunk. And so doctor sisler said to me, even if nothing else has changed in the last hundred years, except thatsleep alone would be causing a really big crisis. That was the first thing that came to my head because you just can't process things properly when you can't sleep.
Transcript
Play full episode
