I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet

to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Hi everyone and welcome to a special Mind Valley podcast episode.

What I'm going to do here is not bring on a guest.

I wanted to just share with you an idea that I had been obsessed with.

So for the longest time, I had fallen for a common myth

and it had to do with sleep. I I believed that busy productive people

needed less sleep. I believed that if I was sleeping too much you know I'd be

considered lazy and my And my wife, my wife, Christina, she loves her sleep.

I would basically wake up around two hours before her on a Saturday, on a Sunday, dive into emails, get work done and I would consider myself

being productive. But then, over the last one year, I started actually looking at the

science of sleep and I started realizing that oh my god boy did I screw this up I was trying to heck my life to survive on six hours of sleep a day, not realizing just how wrong this was and

just how dangerous it is to attempt to reduce your sleep.

So here's what I wanted to share. This is what I have learned

over the past 18 months. It's made a profound impact in my life and I think this is

going to be really useful for those of you who are go-getters, who are busy

people and who have somehow come to believe this for those of you who are go-getters, who are busy people,

and who have somehow come to believe this common myth

in entrepreneurial communities,

in the world of hustle

that we need to cut down on our sleep to be productive individuals.

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