to getting a restful night's sleep what does sleep hygiene mean well like jaco talks about it means going to bed at the same time every day certainly but it also means that you don't engage in certain behaviors that are detrimental to sleep so staring at blue light is a big one but also watching and engaging with highly emotional content honestly on the internet uh is terrible for your sleep right and the problem is is that in you watch let's say a netflix drama well the drama's job is to increase your level of anxiety for the characters you're supposed to be invested in what's happening to them but the problem is is that you can't go from this heightened state of anxiety or excitement and then suddenly drop off a cliff and go to bed the same thing happens when you scroll through any sort of you know social media that's designed for engagement it's going to feed you uh topics that will ex incite an emotion right yeah the dog everyone loves the instagram real dog vids but we're honest there's always going to be highly charged emotional news or personal anecdotes or things you don't want to see and the platforms know this they know that they need to get you worked up for this content to to improve their engagement but going to bed after reading a tweet that just enrages you or some trash clickbait article that's like super salacious that's not going to put you in an emotional state you want to downshift from your day and coast to sleep that's what sleep hygiene is about it's also the things he talked about going to bed at the same time every day not drinking alcohol is another big one that notion of discipline equals freedom if you want more freedom in your life you have to have more discipline if you don't have any discipline you'll end up with absolutely no freedom you'll end up being a slave to other people that boss you around there's all kinds of problems that can occur if you don't have discipline in your life and the more discipline you have the more freedom you're gonna have so i mean i think this is true certainly uh you know and older philosophers talk about being a slave to your appetites is how they used to phrase it and that means brought into the modern parlance it means that you are beholden to your desires you're powerless to resist those basic urges that you have and again that's the part of you you know anthony bourdain sometimes used to talk about it it's the part of you that wants to stay home it's the part of you that wants to stop at whataburger for lunch every day what a burger uh it's the part of you that that just doesn't want to work out today right and that voice exists in all of us it's the part that makes you want to just when your spouse or your kids do something you just want to yell at them and it's the you have to have discipline to resist those things right because while they happen right they they you can't allow them to consume your life and we've all seen people who have allowed any vice any impulse to consume their whole lives right and so unless you exercise the discipline it's that gives you the choice right some people have no choice if you have no discipline or no willpower then you will do whatever your impulses that would be someone who's like a
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