Tommy Wood
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390 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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I think that becomes slightly counterproductive.
But like one way that that really impacted me was for several years, I would think that my wife will tell you she experienced it.
Like if I didn't sleep well, like I would not perform well the next day.
I'd be like really grouchy.
I'd need my coffee and then extra coffee.
And it would kind of get in my head like I hadn't slept well.
And because I hadn't slept well, I wouldn't perform well.
And you see from a bunch of really interesting studies that if you manipulate how somebody thinks about how they slept, they will feel worse.
They'll feel more tired and they'll perform worse regardless of how they actually slept, right?
And then you can see other studies where they have people and they sleep deprive them and they look at their cognitive function.
And yes, like don't get me wrong, sleep is critical to brain health and long-term cognitive function.
But in the short term, the brain adapts
And you see that processing may slow down a little bit, but quality of work and accuracy doesn't change.
So you become a little bit more deliberate.
You're a little bit grumpier about it.
So mood declines a lot more than performance.
In reality, the performance decrement is negligible, if not zero, after a night of poor sleep.
And so now I think that if you, because I, you know, have the big rocks in place, right?
Usually I sleep well, um, regularly and I, and I eat well and I exercise regularly and I have good social connection and I spend time outdoors and all that.
Like I've built an environment that kind of provides buffer in the system headroom as I call it in the book.
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