Our collective relationship with sleep is one of the most paradoxical things I deal with on a regular basis.
On the one hand, British doctors write more than 15 million prescriptions for sleeping pills each year. On the other, in the last 20 years, sales of energy drinks have also increased by 75%. It seems we can neither fall asleep nor stay awake.
And yet, insufficient sleep is correlated with impaired logical reasoning, decision-making, memory, and attention. Sleep debt is also cumulative; if you sleep for less than six hours a night for five nights in a row, you can expect your cognitive performance to drop to that of a person who hasn’t slept for 48 hours.
Tiredness leads to bad decisions, which increases your workload and results in even less sleep. It’s a vicious cycle.
The excellent news is that sleeping well is not as hard as it sometimes feels. Sleeping well is simply a matter of creating the right physiological and mental conditions. This checklist will help you do just that.
So if you ever struggle to fall asleep, or wake in the night and then find it hard to get back to sleep, this is for you.
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