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Hey!
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Thumbs up for completing another module.
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Now today I wanted to talk to you about the importance of sleep.
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I know I'm laughing as I say it because it sounds like such a silly thing, right?
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Who doesn't know how to sleep? But actually there's a lot of things I've tried over the past like few
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years that have really helped me.
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Firstly when I was working in Medicine, when I was training in surgery, the sort of consensus that people
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told me is like,
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"Look if you're gonna be hardcore, if you are going to be really good at your job, you have to be good
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at being sleep deprived."
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Like just you know like people would like show off how like oh, "I only slept for like two hours yesterday."
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And actually you know at the time, I was really impressed.
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I was like, "Wow! They're like so hard core. They work really hard and they don't sleep and they have more
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hours." But as time has gone on and as I've found more objective measures of my sort of brain performance,
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I've realized that this is such a silly way to think about things. Like sleep is so important. It helps
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your brain get rid of a lot of the sort of things that build up during the day,
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right?
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A lot of the byproducts. And it essentially helps you regenerate.
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So the nights when I sleep really, you know, like two hours or three hours, I really feel it the next day.
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I can do things that I've already learned how to do, like things by rote, but I can't do anything creative.
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I really struggle to learn things.
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I struggle to make connections in my brain.
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And it made me realize like, "What am I doing? Why am I living life like a zombie trying to attain this
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like level of...
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It's like sort of approval of people when I know that I'm a much better person?"
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I'm also a friendly person when I sleep more.
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So one of the things I've been trying to do is to have an alarm that goes off like about an hour before
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I have to go to sleep.
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So instead of having like a wake up alarm, having an alarm that tells me, "OK it's time to wind down. It's
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time to switch off the screens." I've even got this...
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I've even got this like red tinted glasses that I wear at home when I'm like looking at something like
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if I have to watch something with other people.
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And just like wind down with like a non... like a...
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And just wind down with like a fiction book of some sort,
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so that once I'm actually in bed I'm like fully calm and I'm not so like agitated that it takes me ages
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to fall asleep.
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Other things that really help is drinking some warm milk,
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having a little snack before I go to sleep.
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But the importance of sleep is like, it's just a calm.
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There's nothing that beats it really.
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There's no supplement that I've ever taken or any sort of medication or anything else basically that
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lives up to what sleep can do for you.
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So don't try to be hardcore,
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try to get enough sleep and try to keep a regular rhythm so that the next day you're actually fresh.
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And the thing that your brain learns, it actually keeps rather than just you know... you might have to
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cram stuff but you probably won't be able to hold onto that knowledge or skill unless you have really
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good sleep.
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So try that out and keep going keep going keep going keep going and you're going to do great.