How To Beat the Dreaded Midday Slump

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Every day around 2:00 p.m. Rob hits a brick wall. A busy job and two young children have zapped all of his energy, and he's desperate to do something—anything—to make it through the rest of the workday. Enter the elusive and often guilt-ridden midday nap. But there too Rob struggles to really rest and then wake up without making things worse. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Dr. Sara Mednick, author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life and the forthcoming book The Hidden Power of the Downstate. Sara draws on years of research at her sleep lab to advise Rob, and all of us, how to stay energized during a long day (Hint: It might not involve napping at all).

If you liked this episode, check out: "How To Sleep" with Andy Puddicombe, co-founder of Headspace.

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0:24.8	on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Av How to Slate Plus segment. My name is Rosie Belson, and I've been producing
0:44.5	advice here at Slate for half a decade now. And during that time, I've learned a lot of tips. But it's
0:51.4	kind of hard to tell what really works unless you implement that advice into your life.
0:56.8	So, each month I've been digging through the how-to archives and pulling out some of our most
1:01.5	promising advice and putting it to the test. Last month, I did something new every single day
1:06.7	in order to feel present and make life exciting again. And this month, I've kind of done the opposite.
1:13.8	I'm going to put myself to sleep.
1:15.9	Or at least try to.
1:17.7	Over the course of the show, we've dedicated about five whole episodes to sleep,
1:21.4	and it's been mentioned in countless others.
1:24.1	The reason for that may be a little obvious.
1:26.5	Sleep is foundational, but it's also really
1:28.5	personal. What's affecting my sleep isn't necessarily what's affecting your sleep. For example,
1:34.1	I don't snore that much, nor do I currently share a bed. So having a partner hog the covers
1:39.1	isn't really something I'm struggling with. If that is you, we do have an episode for that.
1:44.4	Anyways, what we'll cover here is some foundations of sleep. And the first step I've learned
1:50.0	is just to do a little bit of information gathering. Figure out what patterns of sleep you have.
1:55.8	What are your potential issues? And also go back to your childhood because some of these habits are things that we've
2:02.7	picked up years ago and it's useful to understand where they come from. So I decided to call
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