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Squiggly Careers

#291 How understanding the science of sleep can improve your work

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Management, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Over the next month, Helen and Sarah are focusing on Squiggly Careers 'life skills'. They will be covering health, sleep, money and relationships and understanding the practical actions you can take to create the strongest foundations for squiggly career success. Today, they are talking about sleep and deep-diving into 2 books for inspiration. Helen reviews Life Time by Russell Foster and Sarah explores insights from Matthew Walker in Why We Sleep. Ways to learn more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/podmail 2. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' For questions, feedback or just to share your holiday photos you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sarah.

0:03.5

And I'm Helen.

0:04.4

And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.

0:07.1

In the next few episodes, we're doing something a bit different for the summer.

0:10.8

And you might be listening outside the summer and that's fine too.

0:13.5

But we thought we would focus on some of the factors outside of work that we think help you to succeed in work.

0:20.3

And we're covering health, sleep, which we'll

0:23.1

be talking about today, money and relationships. And we are absolutely not the experts on any of

0:29.1

these topics. So much so. We had a debate about whether we should even talk about them and should

0:33.5

we get guests. But in the end, what we decided to do for each episode was choose a different

0:38.3

book to read so we could dive a bit deeper into the topic. And in our conversations together,

0:43.5

we're going to talk about what we learned and how it's helped us. So hopefully it gives you

0:47.7

some useful ideas for action and tools to try out, just like the rest of the Squiggly Careers podcast.

0:53.5

I also think, I think it's a good thing that we're not expert

0:56.4

because hopefully a lot of people listening don't consider themselves to be experts in this area

1:00.1

and they're a bit like us looking for some help.

1:02.1

So we're all in it together.

1:04.2

So should we share what books on sleep we both read and why we chose these books?

1:08.0

Do you want to go first?

1:08.6

Yes.

1:08.9

So I read, Sarah can see this, I read Lifetime. This is a beast of a book.

1:15.0

That is not the subtitle. It feels like that's not going to be the quote that they'll use on the poster.

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