The Future is How - Episode 2 - Biologic Clock #futureready #podcast #sleep

If you wake up at night or if you're awake late in the evening, you can't trust yourself. It's not just about being awake for a really long time. It's also about the time of day. So it seems as if our biological clock has really programmed us to be asleep at night. So when you lie awake at night and you're worried about something, no, you cannot trust your mind at this time of day. Your prefrontal cortex, the part that usually makes you really smart, that can reframe things, that can think about it an alternative way, that can think think of positive things, can think of things that you're grateful for. It's the part of your brain that's really impacted both by sleep deprivation, but also it's harder to reboot in the middle of the night. So this isn't the time to problem solve. This isn't the time to trust your feelings on anything. Either wake up the next day, or even if you would stay awake until the next morning, and the sun comes up, everything is suddenly much lighter and you can feel much more positive.