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#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Snoose Button

If you would sleep past your alarm if it didn't go off, then that's probably one indication. The snooze button is the perennial exes sion of the human frustration of this thing called a chronic lingering sleep debt. And i think many of us do feel the need to sort of try to get back sleep at the week end. It's what we call social jet like ot i almost call a sleep belemia. Is there danger to trying to force more sleep? Like, what you wake up in the morning and your like, oh, no, I only slept five hours or so. Should i just lie down until there are less calories left on my body after binge

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