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The speaker spent years believing sleep was weakness, aiming for just 4-5 hours a night. After reading Why We Sleep, he learned sleep is actually a superpower that boosts health and performance, not a sign of laziness.
The speaker spent years believing sleep was weakness, aiming for just 4-5 hours a night. After reading Why We Sleep, he learned sleep is actually a superpower that boosts health and performance, not a sign of laziness.
The common thread growing up was that sleep was for the weak. You don't need to sleep that much. Just focus on performing, performing, performing. And so growing up, I would think to myself, oh, maybe I only need to sleep 4, 5 hours or so. And you realize reading books like Why We Sleep or even watching a TED Talk that sleep matters a lot and that sleep is in fact your superpower. It's one of the power-ups that you have in your life.
