A personal trainer argues that not all time is equal: an hour of focused work beats hours scrolling on your phone. He uses a chicken coop example to explain how poor sleep speeds up your body's decline, then suggests setting a bedtime alarm to regulate sleep and improve focus.
There's this fun fact in farming that if you keep the lights on in the chicken coop, the chickens will lay more eggs simply because they kind of age in fast forward, which is kind of like what happens with humans when we don't get enough sleep. Now, people think that all time is created equal, and the truth is it's not, because an hour of focused time is worth more than 4 hours of distracted time. And we all know this inherently when we're on our phones scrolling. So the question then really is, do we want to present each day as the tired version of ourselves or as optimal? And we're never going to get optimal. Optimal, I I think is elusive, but we can definitely work towards that. And one very simple way to work towards that is to set a bedtime alarm. Put it on your phone. Everyone looks at alarms as a thing of, you know, you do it when you wake up, but really there's two alarms that you need to set every day. One that you wake up, and hopefully you wake up without an alarm, but the alarm more importantly of when you go to bed, because that's also going to dictate when you wake up. So if you implement this tip, let us know in the comments how you go.
