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The big lie about sleep
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#32https://archive.is/2gbWb
So, the lie is that you can only do so much to improve your sleep while poor and working.
It comes down to being rich, not being required to work, no boss, not submit vacation days a year in advance, able to get quality healthcare whenever needed or electively wanted, have time to exercise, meditate, and eliminate any worries or concerns with money that you rarely care about the costs.
There’s a lot of sleep hackers I’ve looked into who dive into EEG scalp mounted machines worn at night, 8sleep active waterbed addon coolers with sleep data, or sleep bands/rings. The latest is tracking and improving HRV heart rate variability numbers.
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#33Why post an article that's behind a firewall that only subscribers can read?
to provide another example of the sane big lie but in the context of ‘being informed’
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#34Why post an article that's behind a firewall that only subscribers can read?
It's not that way for everyone but for those it is you can prepend archive.is/ to the url and read it that way.
Allowing paywall sites without ever mentioning the site almost relies on users doing the above is one of the policies I find most annoying on the site. Seems to trip most everyone up.
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#35I keep telling my kids that a vastly overlooked trick to success is going to bed earlier and getting more sleep. That and gratitude (which is why our family has evening rituals around this).
It was so hard for me to actually do that as a kid. You basically wake up, off to school, off to extracurricular, off to dinner, off to homework, and off to bed if you want a chance at 8 hours of sleep. Five days a week of that and your parents probably fill up your weekends for you. Oh and I worked in high school so that was shoehorned in somehow. Staying up late cutting into sleep time was the only time of day I ac…
I get why parents make kids do extracurriculars (US college admissions arms race), and I get that school starts very early in the US (7:30 IIRC), and I get that some kids just have to work to bring in more money.
But not allowing your kids to sleep in on weekends ever is just crazy and seems unnecessary.
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#36> When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are. Looking at their sleep map, that swath of good sleep down the middle of the country seems to go against that, and isn't mentioned in the article (unless I missed it). Most of Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado aren't "rich", but they get the best sleep. Wisconsin is slightly worse than those, but still rather good, and likely the only reason they…
Even more interesting is how the swaths are angled across the whole country, at just about the same angle as when sunrise actually is: https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2022/03/18/sunrise-time...
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#37I keep telling my kids that a vastly overlooked trick to success is going to bed earlier and getting more sleep. That and gratitude (which is why our family has evening rituals around this).
> a vastly overlooked trick to success
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
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#38https://archive.is/2gbWb So, the lie is that you can only do so much to improve your sleep while poor and working. It comes down to being rich, not being required to work, no boss, not submit vacation days a year in advance, able to get quality healthcare whenever needed or electively wanted, have time to exercise, meditate, and eliminate any worries or concerns with money that you rarely care about the costs. There’…
> It comes down to being rich, not being required to work, no boss, not submit vacation days a year in advance, able to get quality healthcare whenever needed or electively wanted, have time to exercise, meditate, and eliminate any worries or concerns with money that you rarely care about the costs.
You can have all of this and be middle class if that's what you prioritize instead of Keeping Up with the Joneses.
You will likely not have both, though.
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#39If anyone wants to learn more I found Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker to be a good read:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
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#40Super disappointed by the article, but 100% because I read the title as "The big lie about sheep" and was super interested in finding out what _that_ lie was. Now I want that article to exist.