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Before Breakfast

How to quit the snooze button

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Find more time in your day — and sleep better — by learning how to kick the snooze button habit for good.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Daniel Tosh, host of a new podcast called Tosh Show.

0:03.4

I'll be interviewing people that I find interesting, so not celebrities, and certainly not

0:07.8

comedians. We'll be covering topics like religion, travel, sports, gambling, but mostly it will be about being a working

0:16.3

mother.

0:17.3

If you're looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that will really make

0:21.3

you think, this isn't the one for you.

0:24.0

Listen to Toss Show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast

0:36.9

podcast. Today's tip is about how to quit the snoo's button. When it comes to how we spend time,

0:44.0

I think the snooze button is one of the most unfortunate inventions ever created.

0:49.0

That's not because I think everyone should get up at the crack of dawn to run marathons or anything like that.

0:55.4

I think snoozing is bad because I love my sleep.

0:59.5

I love deep dream-inducing, brain-restoring sleep.

1:04.0

Sleeping in nine-minute increments, on the other hand,

1:07.0

is the worst of all worlds.

1:09.0

You're not getting up and starting your day,

1:11.0

but you're not enjoying deep sleep either.

1:15.0

That said, like many evil things, the snooze button is very tempting.

1:19.7

I'm not a big snoozer myself, partly because I have a lot of young children.

1:24.3

They don't come with snoo's buttons.

1:26.5

But I've studied thousands of time logs over the years, and I know a lot of people hit snooze

1:31.6

out of habit. It's not uncommon to spend half an hour or more each

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