There is a version of waking up that most people have completely forgotten is possible. You open your eyes naturally — before the alarm. Your body feels light. Your mind is clear. You actually want to get out of bed and start the day. No grogginess, no heaviness, no desperate wish for five more minutes. If that sounds like a fantasy, I understand. For years I woke up feeling more tired than when I went to bed. Seven hours of sleep that somehow left me exhausted. I'd drag myself through the first half of every day running on coffee and willpower, wondering why everyone else seemed to function fine while I felt permanently jet-lagged. The problem, I eventually discovered, wasn't how much I was sleeping. It was how I was sleeping. Quality matters infinitely more than quantity. Six hours of deep, uninterrupted sleep will leave you feeling better than nine hours of fragmented, shallow sleep every single time. I spent a long time researching sleep — reading st...
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