Dr. Michael Grandner

The fear is what's creating the activation that's getting in your own way.

So, so recognizing that it's not under your control, trying to control it is not going to help.

Nobody got to sleep faster by trying harder.

The enemy of sleep.

is effort.

If you're engaging in effort, you're adding energy into the system.

And athletes especially are vulnerable to this because athletes are used to gaining control over their body and learning how to control their body in ways that most people just don't know how to because they haven't been trained to.

So there's always a solvable problem there.

Sometimes it's like, like injury recovery.

Sometimes you can't make it go faster.

Like if you injure yourself, you gotta do what you gotta do to recover.

You can't, there's no like dance you can do or, or book you can read that will make that recovery go faster.

You gotta give it the time it needs.

Similarly, this is a process that's outside of your control.

Trying to control it will actually make it go slower.

Worst name.

I mean, so if you actually look to the original publication, they didn't even call it sleep restriction therapy.

They called it restriction of time in bed, which is really what it is.

It's a simple concept of...

Again, a lot of these things are simple in concept, but difficult in execution.