Sleep

“Sleep in general for poker is the most important thing. It's like, it's the, it's like if our mind is a computer, it's the time where it shuts down and it reboots and, you know, you download all the information so that you're ready to do it the next day.”

“I wish I'd paid more attention to sleep, but if I had, I couldn't have done most of what I did.”

“So, for example, a lot of people building agents have independently discovered sleep. The agents have to sleep because they have to compress memories and do, like, the deep REM thing where they actually turn those into long-term memory.”

“Sleep is, like, by far and away the biggest power law. Then exercise, number two, diet, number three.”

“So something between seven and a half and eight and a half hours of sleep is typically good for everyone. But the real critical thing is this. If you feel consistently well-rested, you're good. Some people, that's six hours. The genetics just work like that. F…”

“And of the top three things, what I'll boil it down to is the top one thing, which is like, 80% of the 80%. It's all about sleep.”

“Like if you feel safe, if you feel loved, if you have like Joie de vivre. You're looking forward to your day tomorrow. You had a great day where you feel gratified, and you feel like you exhausted yourself in the best possible way. You probably sleep really go…”

“And by the way, exercise can forgive a lot of sins, including lack of sleep. That's why I start with that. And I don't make the sleep the most important. I actually think it's exercise.”

“Reframe your identity, that you are a professional sleeper. So in the same way that each one of us every day shows up to our meetings on time, if we're two minutes late, we apologize. So set your bedtime and show up on time. And if you're two minutes late, apo…”

“I would make sleep your number one life priority. Like the most important thing you do in any given day is high quality sleep. And I would build your life around it because when you have good sleep, So many of the things in life are much better, and then if yo…”

“If you're male and you're not getting enough sleep, your nighttime erections are eliminated. And nighttime erections are an important biomarker for sexual health, psychological health and cardiovascular health.”

“You sleep for five hours. Your recovery in the morning is going to be almost equal to sleeping in six hours if you can trick your mind. And the trick in the mind is don't tell him how many hours you slept.”

“These patients, again, single mutation, single gene, these patients only need four hours of sleep a night to be completely rested the same way that we have, ah, the need for eight to nine hours of sleep a night.”

“We've recently discovered in the last five, six years that sleep isn't necessarily a whole brain at the same time phenomenon. That in fact, some of our brain can be asleep while other parts of our brain can be awake.”

“Sleep is really important also for a lot of developmental steps that have critical time windows, and if you lose that sleep in that time window, you lose the opportunity to fully develop that part of the brain.”

“That immunization will be at least 50% less effective than it would otherwise be and you can't make up for that by just getting more sleep the next night.”

“I don't think meditation per se is essential in the way that I would say exercise is essential and reasonable nutrition And adequate sleep are essential.”

“The truth is that Ambien only gives you about 15 more minutes of sleep, which is surprising, right? Because people feel like I slept so much more deeply. What it really does is it makes you amnestic for the periods of awakening. So it doesn't actually have you…”

“Decision-making energy is a finite resource, and you know, there's that great book called Willpower by John Tierney, and it's a finite resource. When it's gone, and there's only two ways to replenish it, which is sleep and glucose”

“We sleep 20% less than we did a century ago.”

“Only 15% of us now wake up feeling refreshed.”

“The biggest peak in alertness actually occurs about 90 minutes before your natural to sleep time.”

“In order to fall asleep and stay asleep, you need your body temperature to be about one to three degrees lower than it was in that in the afternoon.”

“What we found is that once you drop below seven hours of sleep, for most people, we can measure objective impairments in either your brain and your body.”

“I would say it's very dangerous to stay in bed awake for long periods of time. And it's especially dangerous to do that and force yourself to try and sleep and become frustrated with not being able to sleep. And the reason is the following. We are very Pavlovi…”

“Which is that the harder you try to fall asleep, the further that sleep gets pushed away from you, and it's a little bit like trying to remember someone's name, you know, that feeling where you're trying, and the harder you try, the worse it gets, the further …”

“What you're doing with alcohol is sedating your brain, and sedation is not sleep.”

“We found that even just one glass of wine in the evening can have, you know, significant and measurable impacts on your sleep at night”

“So what we know is that for you to fall asleep and for you to stay asleep across the night, your body and your brain need to drop their core temperature by Probably almost about one degree Celsius across the entire night from its extremity from the highest poi…”

“If you've had a bad night of sleep, here is my following best advice. Do nothing. And what I mean by that is after a bad night of sleep, firstly, don't try to sleep it off by waking up any later than is natural. Don't sort of say, I'm going to then sleep in fo…”

“If you're struggling with sleep, remove all clock faces from your bedroom. If you're waking up in the middle of the night, and you're staring at the clock, and you look and you see it's three 21 in the morning, And then you toss and you turn, then you look at …”

“And I think the reason we see some of these mental health outcomes that, that, you know, these the deleterious outcomes is not the technology itself. It's what the technology is displacing, namely sleep, right? That that is the big culprit.”

“There was one study from, oh, twenty-fifteen that showed that adding one extra hour of sleep increased the chances of having sex the next night by 10%.”

“For people who are competitive and, you know, want to aspire to be like their tech idols. Sleep has become symbolic of how efficient somebody is, how smart somebody is, you know, how well they've optimized their life.”

“Yes.”