Hi I'm HermitBob and I want you to go to bed. All the best stuff happens there anyway.
So why should you prioritise sleep before anything else?
Hey so you like losing weight?
Cool because you burn more calories during sleep, and sleep deprived individuals have been shown to repeatedly make worse eating choices. Willpower is demonstrably a finite resource and tired people have less of it. Sleep is also important for nutrient partitioning during weight gain (you want calories for your muscles, not your fat tissue) and lean mass retention during weight loss (you want to lose fat not muscle).
Hey so you like improving at any skill ever?
Cool because different stages of sleep relate to different skillsets (motor tasks, perceptual, emotional, memory), skip out on any of those stages and your skill progression will be drastically slowed.
Hey so you like growing muscle?
Cool because more sleep, more muscular blood flow, more tissue repair, more generation of human growth hormone, more testosterone.
Hey so you like testosterone?
Yea see above. Circadian arrythmia gonna really fuck with those sex hormones.
Hey so you like not being stressed?
Sleep deprevation (and remember deprevation is a sliding scale arguably starting at <9 hours of good quality sleep per night) goes hand in hand with raised glucorticoid levels, causing stress, causing you to be an overweight ball of nerves. Entire books have been written on this.
Hey so you like not developing neurological disorders at an old age, destroying any possibility of you fully enjoying that kickass life you worked hard on for so long?
Poor sleep and neurological disease/degeneration in old age goes hand in hand. To a scary degree.
Hey so you like...well you get the idea.
Let me take another approach.
The seven life areas! Hey now we're on topic for the 2.0's in the room.
Financial? Well you make poor decisions when you're tired and you'll be more risk averse when stressed. That new business idea of yours? You'll be less likely to get around to it and more likely to fuck it up if you do. Play the odds, get some sleep bruh.
Woman? Poor sleep quality and kiss your sex hormones goodbye. Plus the knock on effect on all the other areas are probably gonna hurt here too.
Physical? Too many issues here to list, but let's stick with the low hanging fruit. Less sleep, less sweet gainz. "Not the gainz HermitBob!".
Spiritual? Well the Dali Llama doesn't need 5 expressos to get through lunch and nor should you. Also, dreaming is arguably one of the oldest forms of spirituality, so git some.
Family? Nothing like snapping at your mom for calling to check up on you because you're cranky.
Social? Hey in fairness you can have a kickass social life without sleep. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Recreational? Hell you're less likely to even remember that sweet road trip properly without a decent amount of sleep.
So what is quality sleep? It's a whole other writeup.
So why should you prioritise sleep before anything else?
Hey so you like losing weight?
Cool because you burn more calories during sleep, and sleep deprived individuals have been shown to repeatedly make worse eating choices. Willpower is demonstrably a finite resource and tired people have less of it. Sleep is also important for nutrient partitioning during weight gain (you want calories for your muscles, not your fat tissue) and lean mass retention during weight loss (you want to lose fat not muscle).
Hey so you like improving at any skill ever?
Cool because different stages of sleep relate to different skillsets (motor tasks, perceptual, emotional, memory), skip out on any of those stages and your skill progression will be drastically slowed.
Hey so you like growing muscle?
Cool because more sleep, more muscular blood flow, more tissue repair, more generation of human growth hormone, more testosterone.
Hey so you like testosterone?
Yea see above. Circadian arrythmia gonna really fuck with those sex hormones.
Hey so you like not being stressed?
Sleep deprevation (and remember deprevation is a sliding scale arguably starting at <9 hours of good quality sleep per night) goes hand in hand with raised glucorticoid levels, causing stress, causing you to be an overweight ball of nerves. Entire books have been written on this.
Hey so you like not developing neurological disorders at an old age, destroying any possibility of you fully enjoying that kickass life you worked hard on for so long?
Poor sleep and neurological disease/degeneration in old age goes hand in hand. To a scary degree.
Hey so you like...well you get the idea.
Let me take another approach.
The seven life areas! Hey now we're on topic for the 2.0's in the room.
Financial? Well you make poor decisions when you're tired and you'll be more risk averse when stressed. That new business idea of yours? You'll be less likely to get around to it and more likely to fuck it up if you do. Play the odds, get some sleep bruh.
Woman? Poor sleep quality and kiss your sex hormones goodbye. Plus the knock on effect on all the other areas are probably gonna hurt here too.
Physical? Too many issues here to list, but let's stick with the low hanging fruit. Less sleep, less sweet gainz. "Not the gainz HermitBob!".
Spiritual? Well the Dali Llama doesn't need 5 expressos to get through lunch and nor should you. Also, dreaming is arguably one of the oldest forms of spirituality, so git some.
Family? Nothing like snapping at your mom for calling to check up on you because you're cranky.
Social? Hey in fairness you can have a kickass social life without sleep. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Recreational? Hell you're less likely to even remember that sweet road trip properly without a decent amount of sleep.
So what is quality sleep? It's a whole other writeup.
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