2. Sleep more to win friends

Great sleep evades most young professionals. I thought I could tough out bad sleep until I realized it was ruining my social life. Poor sleep makes us sick and irritable and prevents us from waking up early in the morning -- the (surprising) prime time for building meaningful relationships.

  It's hard to be happy for people who say they get great sleep (0:00).  Poor sleep makes you sick which means you can't make friends or build community. Forget covid anxiety, get a good night's rest, and go meet people (4:51).  Sleep controls our emotions so irritating people don't ruin our lives (11:25).  Genuine relationships are built in the morning hours (22:41).  The Point: Inability to improve sleep habits reveals that we are choosing long-term comfort in bad habits to avoid short-term discomfort in changing those habits (28:20).  Thinking is good, doing is better: How do I, a lazy person who doesn't want to change their sleep habits even though I know I should, make the smallest change possible that will yield the greatest improvement in my sleep (34:49)?

Resources:
CDC on the immune system
Matthew Walker website
Matthew Walker on MasterClass
UC Berkeley: The sleep-deprived brain can mistake friends for foes