Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the show. Today's micro shows about sleep.

Sleep, I know, that thing. We either love it or hate it. Very few people that I know are sort of like indifferent to sleep. Like, I can take it or leave it. Most people have a pretty strong opinion of sleep.

I will confess that as a young person, I thought that sleep, I did not get it.

I was like, why do I have to put the brakes on here?

Like, what's happening?

I feel like this is just a time.

It's getting in the way of this life thing.

And I confess that I sort of ran at that for a long time, way too far into adulthood.

And at some point, I figured out how, despite thinking that I was a genetic mutant.

And, you know, and I remember lots of interviews earlier on my professional career saying,

I don't know, I just, I'm too

excitable. I don't, you know, I don't sleep a lot. I'm really sort of a four or five hour a night

guy. And I truly did that for way more than a decade, maybe 16, 17 years. And then, of course,

it catches up to you. And I have recounted in previous writings,

I think in Creative Calling and maybe even in this, this podcast, just a moment where this

sort of sleep hit me out of the thin air and I finally, I went on vacation and it was after

just this heroic stretch of work. And I slept for like 14 hours straight for like five days in a row.

And like, oh, okay.

But regardless how we got here, regardless how I got here, sleep is critical.

And I wanted to share in today's episode my, the progress that I have personally made and what my current sleep status, my, my skills, the techniques that I'm employing that have radically helped me become a much better sleeper. I'm talking like night and day, but bump,

double entendre there. I've really become a pretty dang good sleeper. And over the last 10 years,

I have been fidgeting, tweaking a lot of different inputs. And I feel like I'm at a pretty good

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