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Stephanie Romiszewski

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“Because right now you don't look tired in the way that I would expect you to be falling asleep. I mean, you wouldn't be able to sit still. You would be sort of, probably your eyes would be shutting all the time, dozing off, having little micro sleeps. That's sleepiness. And that's what we should really be understanding as a cue to sleep. in the evenings if you're not feeling that then don't be don't be worried give yourself permission to stay up later because you can't dictate what happens to you during the day and there are so many variables that affect your sleep you are never going to be able to control over them having good sleep hygiene how many good sleepers do you know have it so good sleep hygiene is all these things that”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Needing to shut your eyes Pain to your brain buzzing because you've been working so hard for like 48 hours straight and you don't know what to do with yourself. But the only definition of sleepiness is the ability to shut your eyes and within a few minutes you're falling asleep. So if you were saying to me right now, Steph, I'm so, so sleepy. I'd probably say to you, well, you don't look it.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Game for hours. Well, what happens when your body being as efficient as it is, doesn't actually need you to gain an extra four hours of sleep to recover you. Your expectation is that it should, and when your expectation doesn't get met, you get upset about it and you change your behavior and that's when you start getting sleep problems when the reality is your brain is so smart that even in the certain amount of hours that you get normally at night, it can recover you from that sleep deprivation by just improving or increasing the sleep stage that it thinks you miss the most, for example. But because we have a lack of education, we believe we don't get some sleep. We need to regain that sleep. And when we don't regain that sleep, that's when the anxieties and the stresses over not sleeping starts. So that's a big one, the sleep debt one. The other one is this idea that fatigue and sleepiness are the same things. So yes, when we don't sleep well, we get a lot of fatigue. So fatigue is anything from feeling like your body needs to rest.”
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“Every single night. Yeah. So that is definitely the biggest one we get. You do not, perfection is the enemy of the good. Have you ever heard that term? Because at the end of the day, it's true. Yes, your body loves consistency and regulation, but that does not mean you have to get eight hours of sleep every night. Think about it differently. Think about it over a month, for example. We love this idea of the way we look at time is slightly different to the way your body looks at time. And over a month, you might actually be all right. So maybe one night you get six and a half hours, the next night you get seven and a half, and then the next night you might get a slightly different. As long as it's fairly consistent and maybe 80% of the time, you're doing fairly well and you're giving yourself the right opportunity to sleep, that's okay. Your body's going to do, you know, it will do what it needs to do. And with that, a caveat to that is this understanding of sleep debt. So we don't understand sleep debt properly. People think it's an eye for an eye. I lose four hours.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So for you, if you just carried on the way you were, then unfortunately, yeah, we probably would see that maybe you were getting less sleep than you needed. It probably would be harder for you, maybe when you settled into a routine where you were working at around the same hours every day. So you got a certain kind of role that you had to do, which you had to have a certain schedule. You might find it quite difficult after a while to stick to that schedule. You might find that you are”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I don't think it's the end of the world what you're doing, but at the same time, put it this way, I treat a lot of entrepreneurs when they've retired and they're still fairly young, but not in a good place because they have not followed anything that was fairly going along with what our physiological processes want to do. Our bodies are all about regulation. We have clocks in every cell, in every part of our body, and they like regulation. They like time. They like the timing of things to be ready and regular. And when we keep changing those goalposts, it might seem like we're being uber flexible, but actually the reality is that later on down the line, you'll probably find that you won't be able to cope with it as much.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The problem is you probably won't be able to sustain that. And unfortunately, we are built in such a way that kind of goes with the light dark cycles on this planet. And so to a degree, you are sort of going against that. And unfortunately, we've got lots of other research showing that after a while, you just can't do that forever without implication. So it's not, I mean, if you think about it, insomnia is just a different pattern of sleep. You've just trained your brain to sleep differently. And you're still surviving with it. It's just that most of us don't like that because it's not the rest of society and the way that they're sleeping. And our friends are sleeping. And it feels like we're the only ones awake in the night. I bet if you didn't have all those things to do and you weren't the way you were and you were up at night and everybody else around you is asleep, it would start to feel like a very lonely, anxious place. We're not very rational at night. We're not really made to think in the middle of the night. So we're not incredibly rational.”
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“Yeah, absolutely. To a degree, you can. I mean, we can manipulate our bodies to do anything. In a lab, I could manipulate your body to sleep when I wanted it to sleep. But that's taking away all the environmental factors, all the behavioral factors of your life. And what you're doing now, you know what? It's not the end of the world. You know, you're obviously coping with it and you're healthy.”
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“Stay up until they're sleepy. Don't worry about it. Enjoy yourself, relax. Do the things that you probably don't get time to do because you're busy doing all the other things during the day.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My god. Again, another massive question. There is so much of it. It's so nuanced. You're going to have to ask me some specifics because there is so much there that actually is, I mean, well, the first thing, the biggest thing I would say is, you know, going to bed at exactly the same time every night, dictating your bedtime is probably the worst piece of advice I've ever heard and sends people off on all sorts of different tangents, which does not help. If anything, it makes their insomnia worse because they go to bed in the dark. Not able to sleep getting more anxious, heart rate going up.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you know, those of us who are actively trying to sleep when we can't and we will do anything and we make our sleep opportunities larger and we still can't get sleep. We're not depriving ourselves of sleep. We're doing anything we can to get sleep. So I worry about the amount out there about sleep at the moment and the way that it's the information's being disseminated because I think that's where we're going a bit wrong and all the tracking of sleep and all the tech that comes out. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that it's almost like we haven't quite caught up with all the information that we have and we can't cope with it. quite the way we need to.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“to ask how does sleep affect us? The reality is we actually, or why do we sleep? We don't know actually why we sleep. We know what happens when we don't sleep, but I think we're getting very, very confused between those of us that struggle with sleep and those that are actively depriving themselves of sleep, like the CEO who says, I'll sleep when I'm dead, for example.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can. That's a big big question. What I have seen over the last 16 years of my career is not people coming in dying because they aren't sleeping or with really, really significant illnesses. I've seen people very anxious, very stressed, very low because their sleep is poor and they are extremely worried about it. And I've seen people who are at the top of their game and doing really well in life but are completely crippled by these sleep problems. But it is the fear of bad things, worse things happening to them that is keeping them as stressed and upset as they are. So it's quite interesting because I think the things that bring people to me to get their sleep treated are exactly that fear is actually what I'm trying to alleviate rather than fixing their sleep because I think they're going to get so sick that something terrible is going to happen to them. So it's a really interesting question.”
2021-01-12 · The Diary of a CEO · The Secret To A Good Nights Sleep with Stephanie Romiszewski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you're waking up and you're getting stressed and anxious, do not if you are waking up in the middle of the night and it's been happening to you over and over again to resolve the habit you're going to have to do.”
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