The Importance of Sleep

If you started smoking, base jumping as a hobby or drinking too much, it wouldn't have one tenth the impact that not sleeping enough has. If you look at the cultural pressures around sleep, if you're in a hunter-gatherer group, the pressure is not there. And I've talked to people in South Africa who go out and live in the bush and they say, somebody's always awake. It's so funny how the industrial revolution comes up so often in this podcast because it's where we left our true nature when we decided to be cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all cogs,.