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Sleep Expert Matthew Walker: Do THIS to Sleep Through The Night And Never Wake Up Tired Again
02 Jun 2025
Chapter 1: How much sleep do we actually need?
my husband has a secret son from a past partner hold up sam how do we know have we done the dna test well john luckily it's mother may i have a dna test week on the okay story time podcast so we'll find out soon and this wife writes my husband received a facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father of a five-year-old whoa at first he didn't remember her but then he realized they had a one night stand right before we started dating
Wait, but do we have proof he's the dad? Well, the author says there's no confirmation the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting with her lawyer soon. I think she's going after our money. If the kid is actually my husband's, she would be entitled to it too. So what's the husband got to say about this? This could be his kid.
Well, apparently he broke down in the middle of the living room apologizing, but this is what scared me. His first instinct? if the kid is his son, is to pay the child support but not be an active father in the kid's life because he only wants a family with me, his wife. Oh, this is a mess.
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I like all sorts of things that aren't good for me. Fried chicken.
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Chapter 2: What is the QQRT formula for better sleep?
And we know that there is this epidemic of loneliness happening. We didn't realize how much a lack of sleep was contributing to that. Worse still, when you interact with someone who is sleep deprived and you are well-rested, having had that interaction with the sleep deprived person, when we ask that person, do you feel any more or less lonely in this moment?
They rate themselves as now feeling more lonely themselves having interacted with a sleep deprived individual. In other words, the loneliness that a lack of sleep creates is contagious and it is transmitted from one person to the next. The second thing that we looked at was perhaps one of the most fundamental components of us homo sapiens, which is that we help each other.
It's what we call pro-social behavior. And I cannot imagine any modern civilization that has emerged without pro-social helping between individuals. It's a fundamental ingredient. We help each other. And what we found is that when you are underslept, you withdraw your natural tendency to help other human beings. We observed it at the level of me helping other people.
We observed it at the level of entire groups helping each other. And we also found it across entire nations. And you think, how do you figure that one out? There is a global experiment that's performed on 1.6 billion people across 70 countries twice a year, and it's called Daylight Savings Time. Yeah.
And what we did, we looked at the national donation database across the United States, which is in some ways a measure of selfless giving. I give to charity, I give to other people. And what we found is that in the days after the spring daylight savings time, when we lose one hour of sleep, there was this huge dent in proactive giving by way of donations to charities. we become more stingy.
We become more self-centered. So I would say that it's this new wave of sleep science that goes beyond the DNA nucleus that we spoke about. It goes beyond cells. It goes beyond physiological systems. It goes beyond entire brain networks. It goes beyond the organism themselves. It now translates to a lack of sleep impacting our interrelationships and impacting the very fabric of society itself.
That to me has been stunning and quite the surprise.
Yeah, that is a surprise. I was not expecting that. Fifth and final question we ask this to every guest who's ever been on the show, Matt. If you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be?
Self-forgiveness.
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