Sleep is hyper important, IMO so important that it should be a regular part of annual check ups but isn’t. Focusing on improving my sleep across the last 5 years has correlated with more than tripling my income. That’s not to say I wouldn’t have experienced similar regardless, but many of the behavioral/attentiveness issues I struggled with before were significantly lessened.
Monitor your sleep, go to a sleep doctor, focus on items that don’t spike blood sugars for dinner, isolate alcoholic consumption to nights where you don’t need great sleep (Expanding below), limit screen time, wear an eye mask and set temps appropriately if necessary, etc.
Alcohol and Caffeine are massive drivers here too.
Studies show that moderate intake, IE 2 drinks for an average adult male (or one glass of wine ladies) has a ~25% reduction in overall sleep quality, limits the ability to enter REM sleep, and as the body burns alcohol it increases your propensity to wake or revert to very light sleep.
Caffeine has a half life of ~5 hours in a healthy adult, that means that 100MG of caffeine you take at 8AM is still ~25mg at 5pm, and 12.5mg at 10PM. Not a huge issue, but that monster you slammed at 1pm? That’s 50mg still floating through your system at 10pm. This burn off is worse if your liver isn’t fully healthy.
People self medicate poor sleep with both, caffeine to counter bad sleep, a beer or two after work to wind down and help get to sleep, wake up feeling drowsier the next day, rinse and repeat. Overconsuming caffeine to counter poor sleep only leads to worse sleep.
Someone would do it for $5. They carried out an experiment to see if it would get more kids to read more books. For each book a kid read, they got $2. But later, they learned that the kids only read shorter, simpler books just to earn money. When there was no more money offered, the kids stopped reading entirely.
This was a study about financial reward response so yes. But they did also look at sleep a month after they stopped paying and saw persistent benefits at least at the level of a small boost in sleep obtained.
Reading shorter books is still reading tho. So in this case it’s still worth the money paid to get more kids reading. Assuming they’re actually reading it and not reciting a ChatGPT summary as proof
The study by behavioral economists on the economic incentive showed increased sleep and modestly improved GPAs for the random sample of 468 Pitt students, compared to control. Research published in the (Journal of Political Economy](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740221)
RIP_Soulja_Slim | 17 hours ago
Sleep is hyper important, IMO so important that it should be a regular part of annual check ups but isn’t. Focusing on improving my sleep across the last 5 years has correlated with more than tripling my income. That’s not to say I wouldn’t have experienced similar regardless, but many of the behavioral/attentiveness issues I struggled with before were significantly lessened.
Monitor your sleep, go to a sleep doctor, focus on items that don’t spike blood sugars for dinner, isolate alcoholic consumption to nights where you don’t need great sleep (Expanding below), limit screen time, wear an eye mask and set temps appropriately if necessary, etc.
RIP_Soulja_Slim | 17 hours ago
Alcohol and Caffeine are massive drivers here too.
Studies show that moderate intake, IE 2 drinks for an average adult male (or one glass of wine ladies) has a ~25% reduction in overall sleep quality, limits the ability to enter REM sleep, and as the body burns alcohol it increases your propensity to wake or revert to very light sleep.
Caffeine has a half life of ~5 hours in a healthy adult, that means that 100MG of caffeine you take at 8AM is still ~25mg at 5pm, and 12.5mg at 10PM. Not a huge issue, but that monster you slammed at 1pm? That’s 50mg still floating through your system at 10pm. This burn off is worse if your liver isn’t fully healthy.
People self medicate poor sleep with both, caffeine to counter bad sleep, a beer or two after work to wind down and help get to sleep, wake up feeling drowsier the next day, rinse and repeat. Overconsuming caffeine to counter poor sleep only leads to worse sleep.
TGAILA | 17 hours ago
Someone would do it for $5. They carried out an experiment to see if it would get more kids to read more books. For each book a kid read, they got $2. But later, they learned that the kids only read shorter, simpler books just to earn money. When there was no more money offered, the kids stopped reading entirely.
themiracy | 17 hours ago
This was a study about financial reward response so yes. But they did also look at sleep a month after they stopped paying and saw persistent benefits at least at the level of a small boost in sleep obtained.
shortyman920 | 16 hours ago
Reading shorter books is still reading tho. So in this case it’s still worth the money paid to get more kids reading. Assuming they’re actually reading it and not reciting a ChatGPT summary as proof
def-pri-pub | 15 hours ago
Oddly reminds me of the snake farming happening in British controlled India.
[OP] The_Conversation | 18 hours ago
The study by behavioral economists on the economic incentive showed increased sleep and modestly improved GPAs for the random sample of 468 Pitt students, compared to control. Research published in the (Journal of Political Economy](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740221)