Sleep When You're Dead Tired (LIVE with Arianna Huffington)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Business leader Arianna Huffington nearly died because she didn't get enough sleep. She tells Dr Laurie Santos how this wake-up call changed her attitude to getting enough sack time and shares tips on how we can all prepare ourselves mentally and physically to enjoy the amount of sleep that is vital for us to be healthy, happy and effect in our waking hours.

Recorded in front of a live audience at The Wing in New York's SoHo.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules at Pushkin.
0:14.4	I've been working on a new book.
0:16.6	Can't give it all away, but it involves trips to the Bahamas and court dates and crypto
0:21.2	trading and ankle bracelets.
0:24.2	There's one thing I always do when I sit down to write.
0:26.6	A lot of interviews on background.
0:28.9	They almost never make it into the book, but they just give me a kind of context of what
0:32.7	my characters are going through.
0:34.6	And I'm at that phase right now.
0:36.4	I'm going to let you in on these background interviews.
0:39.0	On the record, once a month, listen in as I call up some esoteric expert, like a crypto
0:43.7	sleuth who traces secrets on the blockchain, or a regulator who knows what's against the
0:47.8	rules for crypto firms trading other people's money.
0:52.5	Listen to Against the Rules wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.2	When people find out I teach a class about happiness, they usually ask for the Clif
1:06.7	Notes version.
1:07.7	What are my top 10 tips?
1:09.5	Or top five?
1:11.0	Some people even go straight to the point.
1:13.0	What's one thing I can change in order to be happier?
1:16.2	When my Yale students ask me this, my answer is always the same.
1:19.9	Get some sleep.
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