Tools and Tips for Better Sleep (#267)

Well these are all great tips one thing that you really need to consider is getting Comfort tested to make sure that you are sleeping on the correct mattress and Sleep System. If you are not comfortable you will not get a proper night’s sleep.

The article you wrote regarding sleep was extremely informative. As a career firefighter, we routinely face sleep deprevation and can’t balance waking up at the fire station with getting a good night’s rest in our homes. Thanks for sharing.

-Jason (Life Blogger)

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Tim, why not try and get Derren Brown on your podcast. He’s a British mentalist who played russian roulette on live tv (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQWK0zBhNz8). He’s also written a book on “Happiness” that talks a lot about Stoic philosophy.

Hi Tim

Can you get Chris Froome on your interview? He’s won the Tour de France multiple times and is very much about hacks and small incremental changes to get incredible gains. Its now his off season so a good time to grab him.

Cheers,

Tony

Hi Tim, I wanted to share this success story with you regarding my college-age son.

My son went off to college last year and had a rough first semester adjusting to everything new. He came home during holiday break and began to read my copy of tools of titans. He asked if he could take it back to school with him and I said, sure. He rushed a fraternity that semester and found solace (and survival tips!) in reading the book. He came home over the summer and had completed most of the book, with lots of Post-it’s and highlighted portions and basically the book was well used. He continued to get up every day with an alarm and spend quiet time reading the book throughout the summer. Then he started reading books from some of the top performers featured in the book. My son has become a changed person. Just setting an alarm to get up in the summer and read books was something out of the ordinary for him. He started watching YouTube videos about nutrition from some of the people featured in the book and changed his diet and got off of Adderall. He just called us last night and told us that he was unanimously voted as the next president elect for the fraternity, as a sophomore. Couldn’t be more proud of my Titan boy. (Imagine if you only had read this book your first year of college! I now give it and recommended as a gift for kids going off to college .) Thank you so much, Tim, for putting this book out there and for all that you do to inspire:)

Like, what’s the point in leaving a comment, let me know when you have a few spare minutes and I’ll call you 🙂

Hi Tim – long time fan (first time commenter!) on your last podcast, you mentioned that one of the things you are most interested in are the “darker” times or shadow periods that your interviewees have experienced, as opposed to only focusing on the observable and commended achievements.

I want to help turn this into a real idea – recently battled through a mental health issue – and the key to my recovery was to destigmatize the disorder by learning that other brilliant, accomplished, and fantastic (women) had gone through something similar and come out the other side stronger!

I have been thinking deeply about how to connect with other people on something like this and it seems like you are interested in the same idea – would love to help you put some muscle behind this if its possible!

Hi Tim,

I too have seen how getting ample sleep recharges you for every aspect of your life.

On the flip side, when I don’t get enough sleep – or solid sleep – all goes to custard.

Last night was a perfect example.

Due to an unforeseen circumstance, I went for my 10 mile run way too late, didn’t get back to the apartment until 7:20 PM, and my sleep schedule instantly was shifted. I felt jacked up, wide awake, through midnight, when usually this feel wears off at say 10 PM, and I can pass out my 11 PM, tops.

Up until 2:15 AM, I passed out and woke at 8 PMish. 6 hours does not cut it for me.

I am a bit flagging energy-wise and feel irritable. Not a good recipe. May be time for a nap.

But virtually every night I get my 8 hours of sleep or more. Solid sleep too.

My morning routine helps a ton. 20 minutes of yoga followed my 20 minutes of meditation and 30 seconds in the icy cold shower. Brilliant practice for managing my energy, for all it to flow, for recharging, for diving into my day from a space of power, not force, and for feeling nice and tired at night.

Ditto for my 15 minutes of pre-bed yoga; really opens up the body and mind, which helps me coast off into LaLa land.

Thanks for sharing Tim.

Ryan

My take on Four Hour Body was that sleep is not measurable. It’s not a booming market like toys for “sleeping”; No pun intended. I have one definition of sleep: dework. I say let sleep be the dog lying on the floor, adorable, not depressing. Write down your dreams, they aren’t real, but they matter, at least according to the end of the Book The Circle.. “Write drunk, edit sober” – Hemingway

I thought this was disappointing. I was really looking forward to getting something out of it, but the only advice I heard was Tim mentioned something he takes at the start (I think Lithium?) and Poliquin mentioned magnesium. I didn’t hear any sleep-specific advice from anyone else! Or did I miss it?

Hi Tim,

I have just got back from a week’s break where I have been reading Tools of Titans and listening to your podcasts dumped onto my diddy little mp3 player.

Absolutely love your work and huge respect for how you have got out there and done it despite your admission of bouts of depression and fear of water.

Keep up the insanely good work, I’m definitely gonna take it as a call to action and bash in with my goals and projects

Peace and Love

Padd

Tim, Fairly new listener to your podcast and have really enjoyed it so far. I am a college basketball coach and would love to hear you get a top collegiate coach on the show. Talking to them about the industry and tactics to motivate 18 to 20 year olds is a very difficult thing. I think it could be very informative and interesting with all the new cheating allegations that have came about recently.

Thanks Tim for another great podcast!

Here is a question for you…

Would you ever consider doing a show on perimenopause. Okay, okay I know its a bit strange to ask this of you but hear me out.

I don’t know how many of your listeners are women but there has got to be quite a few, and we will all have to go through this time that has been described as “hell” by some while others breeze through it. It would be an absolute joy to get in to the minds of researchers or others who have really dove into this subject.

From my point of view you are the perfect man for the job.

I dont know about other women but how the hell are supposed to be Titans or mini titans even when our whole world gets turned upside down in our forties. Some of us,myself included, have just summoned up the courage to deal with whatever was holding us back in our lives and WHAM!

I have researched and read as much as I could and the take away is pretty much “take some pills and be on your way”, or even better they recommend eating healthy, exercising and getting enough sleep. There has got to be a ketogenic diet type solution by some fierce women or men who have found other solutions to it out there that we just dont have access to???

It affects sleep, mood, motivation, memory and of course our physical bodies are deeply affected. Also consider the fact that for most of our lives we have gone through this every month, its ingrained in us.

My question is: what is really going on in our bodies, precisely, and what has and has not worked to allevyor reduce those symptoms other than mainstream advice that you would get if you had diabetes or hypertension too.

There has got to be different tools to use for this.

I was suffered from sleep problem couple of months ago and it make me very disappointed. I woke up for whole night and thoughts about things which not exists in reality. I am glad to see your tips for batter sleep and I will definitely follow your guidelines too. I am good in sleep now but need improvement.

Hey Ferriss listeners,

Listening to this podcast I was interested in what Charles Poloquin mentioned about varying the EPA/DHA ratio relative to what outcome you are after…

In particular, I was interested in noting the ratio he mentioned for reducing inflammation. He mentioned 6:1, but it that EPA:DHA or DHA:EPA?

Can anyone help me out on this one?

Thanks in advance,

Sean

This episode was a nice reminder to go back to the Charles Polliquin episode.

Curious Tim, and fans, many of us strivers are probably teeth grinders, that affliction seductively known as bruxism. A dentist when I was young told me “don’t worry, it’s just your personality type, you’ll probably always teeth-grind!”. Over the years, I’ve noticed that many many people refer to their nightguards. And, surely, stopping this significantly improves sleep quality. I have heard hypnosis mentioned once, does anyone have any experience of this?

Your comment about your stomach lining coming out of your ass made me laugh out loud, in my car, while I was being written up for a speeding ticket. I was in tears. It was that kind of hysterical laughter that so rarely happens! So thank you!!

This seems like an episode that lacked any real effort in creating. It’s supposed theme is not actually prevalent in much of the discussion… some whole segments have nothing to do with sleep and are just cut-and-pasted irrelevant chunks of audio that, while potentially interesting on their own, don’t belong in an episode that’s supposed to be about sleep.

I’m normally a fan, but this episode seems hacked together and was a poor use of my time.

A good sleep is a perfect start for a good day! I’m amazed at how many people don’t sleep good and don’t want to change anything regarding that matter – after all we spend nearly 1/3 of our lifetime sleeping so this should be considered as something vital to anyone’s well being. From my experience, things just seem better and there is a lot let stress durning the day if I had a good sleep. This particular podcast episode resonates with me as I have been looking lately for advice and tips on getting better sleep, so thank you Tim and keep up the good work.