Brian Johnson explains Peter Attia's concept of baseline resetting: we adapt to chronic poor sleep and don't realize how much it costs us. Better sleep feels like upgrading from a fuzzy TV to 4K. Johnson asks you to remember the last time you woke up great, then pick one thing to start and one to stop.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic one. In our last one, we talked about.
A big idea from Peter Attia's great book, Outlive.
As you may recall, he uses the.
Metaphor of a couple different TVs to make his point on what scientists call baseline resetting. Today we're going to let him describe.
It in his own words. Then we'll talk about that dream I.
Had where I was given a plus one.
Here's how Peter Attia puts it in.
His book in the chapter talking about the science of sleep and how important.
It is if we want to extend.
Both our lifespan and our health span.
Atiya tells us, and I quote, yet.
We are often unaware of the devastating.
Effect that poor sleep is having on.
Our energy levels and our performance.
Research has found that people who are.
Sleep deprived almost always underestimate its effects on them because they adapt to it.
As anyone who has had infant children knows, we come to accept the resulting state of mild exhaustion and mental fog.
As a new normal, a process called baseline resetting.
He says, I know I did. I assumed I was sleeping sufficiently as a resident and then as a consultant.
Because I didn't have anything to compare it to. Now that I sleep better, I'm amazed.
That I survived for as long as.
I did in that state.
It's like a regular TV looks fine if that's all you've ever seen.
But once you see a 4K screen, you realize that your old cathode RAID tube TV was not very clear at all. The difference is that dramatic and that's today's plus one. I repeat, where are you right now on the spectrum of old school fuzzy.
TV versus cutting edge high resolution goodness? Be honest.
Think back to the most recent time when you woke up feeling great. It might have been this morning, or.
It might have been last week, or it might have been a decade ago.
But think back to that time and think about what specifically you were doing. Seriously, what specifically were you doing when you were on?
And perhaps most importantly, as always, think.
About what specifically you weren't doing.
Remember, the fastest way to change your life is often to stop doing the stuff that doesn't work.
So what's the one thing you know you could start doing and the one thing you know you could stop doing that would help you wake up buzzing with energy tomorrow morning. Got it.
Awesome.
Crush it tonight.
