Sleep isn’t wasted time. It’s how the rest of your hours get to be good ones.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Cutting sleep feels like buying extra hours, except the hours you buy are worse and so are the ones you already had. Everything you care about, practice, tests, patience with people, runs on how rested you are. It is not a gap in your day, it is the maintenance that lets the day work.
Pick a bedtime for the school nights this week and hold it. Judge the experiment by how the next day goes rather than by what you missed.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What do you give up by cutting your sleep short?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Kids don’t inherit your speeches. They inherit your habits. Pick the habits you’d want copied.
- Every adult you meet was once a scared kid. Treat people like their younger selves are still listening.
- Ever read the names on park benches? Somebody loved those people enough to give strangers a place to sit.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.