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Welcome back Quick Brain, your question for today is how do you improve your sleep?

We are shooting this at the Biohacking Conference where my guests and I are speaking.

I'd like to introduce everybody to the founder of Happy, which is a wearable device that helps you with everything from focus to the topic of sleep.

Scott Donnell, nice to meet you.

Good to be here, man. Thanks for doing this in a random suite in the high-at-regency Orlando.

Well, you did amazing on stage and so I'm looking forward to going deeper in your brain about sleep and being a serial entrepreneur, having the head of multiple companies, something that's gone public.

It's easy for somebody to struggle with burnout and they can really affect your sleep. Have you had challenges in the sleep area?

Yeah, I mean, kind of embarrassing to talk about, but yeah, very much sleep. People think like when you're exhausted, you can sleep. But if you're stressed exhausted, it's almost like a downward spiral.

Your sleep gets hit and sleep is the best newtropic ever created.

So, you know, when there's a lot of stress, you know, I think a lot of people can identify. I was thinking about work, thinking about all the companies when my head hit the pillow. And it was so difficult for me to let it all go.

I didn't have any rhythms. This was a year ago. I had terrible rhythms and no prompts and my mind would spin.

And so maybe I'd pass out and then wake up an hour later and I'd just be up.

And then I'm going and going and going. And even if I wrote it down, I was spiraling. And then when you wake up the next day from a bad night of sleep, you're right back in the cycle.

And so I'm brain fog. I can't be productive. So sleep, I would say, has been one of my toughest challenges as an entrepreneur.

So, we've been with little kids. We've got three little kids, under five, someone cries, and then I'm thinking about work, even though I am sleep for two hours all of a sudden, I'm up.

So, my wife and I have this kind of joke. It's like, well, if the baby cries after two or three, it's like, I'll take care of it because there's no way I'm going back to sleep.

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