It’s Not About How Much You Sleep, It’s About What You Do When You’re Awake
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a classic segment from GaryVeeTV! People are confusing their work ethic with how much time they are sleeping and its leads to a ton of burnout and unhappiness. Getting 7-9 hours of sleep a night is perfectly fine for somebody who wants to "work hard", the question becomes how much time are you wasting while you are awake? Are you using every hour as wisely as possible or did you watch YouTube videos for 3 hours? You don't need to sacrifice your sleep, which is extremely important, to be successful, you need to spend the time you are awake as efficiently as you can.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V Audio experience. |
| 0:04.0 | A lot of people ask, how much do you sleep? |
| 0:06.0 | And my answer is six, seven, or eight hours, and it fucks with people, right? |
| 0:10.0 | Because they think I'm sleeping like an hour. |
| 0:12.0 | And my point there is, sleep's important. |
| 0:15.0 | Like, I don't know, like, who thinks they're going to survive without sleep. |
| 0:18.0 | Sleep's important. |
| 0:19.0 | What's important for what I'm about is what you're doing |
| 0:23.4 | when you're awake. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm fascinated by people who like say I hustle, I sleep four hours |
| 0:29.6 | but then watch three hours of YouTube videos a day. |
| 0:32.6 | Right? |
| 0:33.6 | And so for me, as you know, and what you're referring to |
| 0:36.5 | as somebody who interacts with me is, you know, Tyler's sending you emails like, as you know, and what you're referring to as somebody who interacts with me, |
| 0:38.0 | is, you know, Tyler's sending you emails, |
| 0:40.2 | like, can you do 11.30 p.m. to 12.30 p.m. |
| 0:43.1 | Like, every minute I have is programmed. |
| 0:46.4 | It's more like 11, 15 to 12, 25. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, no, look, I mean, the amount of five and seven, |
| 0:52.8 | and 10, and 13, like, I basically, no, look, I mean the amount of five and seven and ten and thirteen, like I basically, |
| 0:57.0 | Tyler, I see your face, what do you think? |
| 1:00.0 | It's eight, the eight o'clock until 11 p.m. is pretty much programmed to the minute |
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