The Sleep Revolution

I’ve come to see it as a great lesson for living life as if—as the poet Rumi put it—everything is rigged in our favor.

“Dream sleep appears to reset the magnetic north of our emotional compass. One question is whether we can now enhance the quality of dream sleep, and in doing so, improve emotional intelligence.”

sleeping, and these findings have fueled a sleep renaissance. While science continues to make the case for sleep in terms of our physical health, cognitive functions, athletic performance, and general productivity,

“Sleep is so important from the health standpoint that there is perhaps no function which should be so conscientiously exercised.” One effect of the ensuing court battles over the legislation was a pushback against this new idea of human beings—and their sleep—as a product to be monetized as exhaustively as possible.

We can all take steps in our own lives to accelerate this shift, but to really scale it requires change at the top. Boards of directors need to acknowledge that a CEO who’s bragging about getting only four hours of sleep a night is essentially saying that he or she is making decisions while drunk. They need to see that that’s not something to be ap

Finally, I want to reemphasize the two very tangible suggestions that have had the biggest impact on my sleep: First, banish all tech devices from your bedroom at least thirty minutes before you turn off the lights—smartphones are like anti-sleep talismans.

You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can’t really do both at the same time.”

This isn’t news to the New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady, who managed to beat the Seahawks in the last Super Bowl—and win the MVP title. Brady goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. and is still managing to play at the highest level even as he approaches forty. “The decisions that I make always center around performance enhancement,” he says. “I want t

Fragmented sleep changes how the immune system deals with cancer in ways that make the disease more aggressive.”