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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.