Episode 793 Scott Adams: Impeachment Super Bowl, TDS Update, NYT’s Endorsement, Sleep Tricks

Date: 2020-01-20 | Duration: 48:22

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Jason Crow says the President is guilty of bribery NYT Presidential endorsements TDS victims, condition update Sleep tips begin at 33:45

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somebody in the comments is saying white man talk with Scott Adams you know what's interesting I have more african-american followers from my periscope than you might imagine for some reason I seem to speak to that

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some reason I seem to speak to that community which is good I'm glad I'm doing that let's talk about some of the things Senate Majority some of the things in the news Mitch McConnell is reportedly close to finalizing a rule for impeachment in the Senate that after some evidence is presented there would be some sort of a safety valve where they can vote to wrap things up quickly you kinda see where things are going don't you I think you do I think I think where we're adding is that the Senate the setting up a situation where they might hear perhaps Dershowitz is argument about the constitutionality and then say well okay that's all we need to know if it's if it's not an impeachable offense we don't need to know the details we don't even need to know if he did it didn't do it lied about it doesn't matter it's not unbeatable

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doesn't matter it's not unbeatable that's the end of the story and I think that's where it's gonna go I think Dershowitz is going to do his thing he's gonna say doesn't matter if the facts are true or false if everything that's alleged is true it still doesn't matter and I think the Senate's gonna vote so that's what I think is going to happen but I sought interview with one of the impeachment managers for the Democrats representative Jason crow and you you're probably sick of me talking about how a good Allender she which says no matter what the topic is whenever he's on one of the news programs doesn't matter what doesn't matter which topic I've been telling you this for three years that as soon as you hear him talk you feel like the conversation is over because he just puts the nail in the conversation and you say well I could argue with that but no I can't argue

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argue with that but no I can't argue with that it's actually you just nailed it down that's all you need to know so he's like the the the Godzilla of constitutional lawyers and he's going to be up against this other team of the Democrats including representative Jason crow and he was on a one of the news shows I think yesterday and he mentioned how the president was guilty of bribery and the interviewer says why do you think it is that bribery isn't one of the allegations so this guy who's one of their best lawyer defenders is talking about the president and bribery and that he's asked why do you think that's not one of the charges and he ended up giving this absurdly incompetent answer about well you got to look at the big picture and consider all the context of the things and the impeachment and it's important to the world and he couldn't

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important to the world and he couldn't answer the question of why he seemed to be unaware of what the actual impeachment charges even were so that part was hilarious but then he goes on as he's digging his his hole to put himself in and it gets even funnier he goes on to say that if if the president is not impeached on these charges which people acknowledge are not crimes I mean they're not crafted as criminal charges if he's not impeached for this no president could ever be held accountable and I thought to myself wait a minute if it's not a crime and it's not criminal like which i think is what Dershowitz will argue that the founders were okay if it wasn't technically a crime as sorted as long as it was in that same basket you know as long as you could look at and say well maybe it's not technically a crime but it ought to be a crime you know it's crime like then

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be a crime you know it's crime like then that would still be impeachable but what if what if it's just the president doing his job shouldn't we wouldn't we want to live in a world where if the president doesn't commit a crime and he doesn't commit according to the people who would judge these things and he doesn't also commit something that's crime like do you want him to be held accountable for just doing the job in a different way than you would so I would say that representative Jason crow does not have a strong game at least if we judge it just by this one interview it was sort of a d-minus and in public interviews one of the worst you'll ever see and he's up against Dershowitz I mean how could this even go any other way you you could ignore all the other lawyers involved I think and just say all right that matchup tells you a lot all right the New York Times

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apparently the New York Times endorsement for president means a lot some say probably does and instead of endorsing one person they've decided on a let's say a balanced path to be kind a balanced bath where they they adore stew people Elizabeth Warren and Klobuchar and the reason is they wanted to endorse one who's sort of a progressive and one who's sort of moderate and those are the two they thought were the best of their respective bunches as Ian Bremmer asked idiot tweet where he pointed out it sort of makes the whole concept of endorsement not make any sense if you're endorsing people who are basically opposites what does it mean can you endorse people who have literally opposite views one one wants something very progressive and the other wants something moderate they're not quite an opposite but they're really

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quite an opposite but they're really different but here's the interesting part in the New York Times endorsement they call them Bernie for being too old and maybe not healthy enough so they mentioned his heart attack in his age of 79 and they're suggesting he's just not physically a good risk I think that's pretty bold and it suggests that Biden is too timid to get their endorsement so I think the New York Times is trying to warn people away from the oldest of the candidates which is sort of an adult in the room sort of thing to do I don't like it in the sense that you know it's not that I like the specific recommendations but I do like the fact that they're trying to be the adults in the room here's what the adult in the room says I don't really care how much you like Biden he's too old I don't

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you like Biden he's too old I don't really care how much you like Bernie he's too old that's sort of the that's the adult in the room and I feel as though the people who were grasping to Biden and Bernie are are sort of taking maybe a childlike view because a child would say well let's just ignore the most important fact which is they're both just too old there's there's no way around it they're just way too old and you could argue that you know Trump and Elizabeth Warren are are pushing that zone but that would be an argument about pushing the boundary as opposed to by them and Bernie who I think you could just unambiguously say they're too old if they were on my you know if they were on my team and and I love them both for president I still say the same thing it has nothing to do with their policies or personalities or anything else there is a biological factor that if you're gonna

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a biological factor that if you're gonna be the adult in the room Thank You New York Times for being the adult in the room you just got to call that out you can't you can't ignore the biggest factor we are biological creatures yeah and and and certainly Bloomberg's got that issue as well all right for by way of full disclosure I do have a bet on predicted the betting site that the Democratic nominee the nominee will be a woman so a place they've been a few months ago I guess and it wasn't just that it would necessarily be you know Harris back when I was thinking that she would be the top of the ticket correctly but anyway I've got that bed out there so just I'll just let that hang there's nothing else to say about it let me give you a trumpet derangement

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let me give you a trumpet derangement syndrome update I always think it's fascinating to be in one movie and then sort of look over and see what the other people are thinking so let me give you just a flavor of some of the things coming from the anti-trump world this one from James Carville you know him famous adviser to Bill Clinton and a very vocal Democrat and pundit and he said this quote I guess yes I think trump and trumpism is the greatest threat this country has faced since the fall of communism what what the greatest threat this country has faced since the fall of communism now the first thing you need to know is that this is a weird sentence because what does he mean since the fall of communism because I thought we were happy about

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because I thought we were happy about the fall of communism so if this is the biggest threat since that thing we were happy about what does that even mean but I'm gonna be I'll be generous in my interpretation of the sentence and say that he was using the fall of communism just as a time period not as a comparison to what's happening under that structure he's just saying that trump and trumpism is the greatest threat this country has faced since several decades really I think the LGBTQ community would like to talk to him about AIDS that was a pretty big problem how about our Wars and our potential nuclear threats from North Korea about terrorism I know I feel like we've had some bigger threats since we've had begger bigger threats than mean old terrible Trump but you

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than mean old terrible Trump but you gave us the biggest economy defeated Isis do I need to go on you know you all know the list of accomplishments but who is still saying stuff like that like it's the biggest problem to our entire country on what level exactly let's say let's say that I saw somebody mentioned global warming in the comments let's say that that's about let's say one of the elements of this comment is that Trump is bad for the economy and I'm sorry know bad for the environment because of climate change he's he's not taking the lead on that but here's the thing what difference would it make it's not the United States who's causing climate change it's China it's it's India we've actually reduced our co2 so what exactly is this greatest threat to the country and what exactly is trumpism so it just sounds a little

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is trumpism so it just sounds a little crazy from our perspective all right then you remember morosa so so remember that James Carville's worried about Trump is not what he's already done so he's been president for three years and and Carville doesn't say look what he did he broke everything instead he says it's the biggest threat meaning the future so I guess what he's done so far wasn't so bad but in the future in the future which you can't measure oh what a coincidence the president is doing well on things you can measure it turns out he's doing very very poorly he's the biggest risk in the world for the imaginary future which coincidentally we can't really measure so here's another comment from Trump derangement syndrome world from

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Trump derangement syndrome world from Omarosa you remember how morosa she was controversial employee for Trump and quit and she was controversial on his reality show and quit that or didn't make it to the top I guess and she said recently President Trump quote doesn't grasp that his ignorance is destroying our country a lot which part of the country is getting destroyed did I miss something is there some part of our country getting destroyed that the news isn't reporting about where exactly is the country getting destroyed and how exactly is his ignorance doing that no it doesn't even make sense Virginia Heffernan and other anti Trumper is writing in the LA Times and I just have to read this one paragraph because there's just a lot in here so that I'm taking this out of a larger anti-trump article but this one

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anti-trump article but this one paragraph has got a special she says understanding Trump is a fool's errand he's sui generis now first of all who writes an article meant to be consumed by the the general public who reads the LA Times and uses afraid like sweet generous sui generis how many of you know what that means 2% so if you've got a writer who uses a term that no more than 2% of the people reading it even know what the freaking word means you're not a good writer Sorry Sorry there's no way other way to say that if you're using vocabulary that the people who read your stuff don't understand you know unless you have some strategy about it you're just a bad writer don't use the sui's generous let me tell you what

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the sui's generous let me tell you what it means it means one-of-a-kind do you know how I know that I looked it up just before this periscope I've been hearing it in the news a lot I get it's one of those words that it's getting around you know people are using and I've heard it a few times and I thought huh I don't have to look that up because nobody's gonna be dumb enough to use that term again and then somebody did and then somebody did again I thought what's up with this anyway so this is the new term just means one of a kind why can't you say one of a kind no reason why would you say sweet sweet generous I don't even know what is that French I don't even know what language that is why would you say that instead of just one of a kind or unique or one-off bad writing all right so he's sweet generous and far too erratic and finally insubstantial to reward close attention what it feels like things are being made

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what it feels like things are being made up with sentences like there's nothing there so you try to construct something out of nothing with the way you word it he's far too erratic based on what measurement is there an erratic scale is there some way to measure that is there such thing as too erratic and just erratic enough what kind of a weird baseless unsupported opinion is too erratic and then she says and finally insubstantial so she's calling President Trump in substantial what's that even mean well I know what the word insubstantial means but it seems to me that he's the most substantial person in the entire planet who is more substantial I mean impactful and meaningful powerful important who is more substantial than President Trump right now nobody the whole world there's nobody more substantial than him and she just throws this into a sentence like it's somehow

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this into a sentence like it's somehow obvious well he's too insubstantial to reward close attention what are we rewarding people by paying attention that's not how it works we just look at things that we like looking at we look at things that are interesting we're not rewarding people with our intention hey hey I'm gonna read you a comment to give you a reward that's not how it works we just look at stuff we want to look at she goes on crumbs elet's Trump zealots so now if if you're a trump supporter you're a zealot why can't you just be a trump supporter why can't you just look at your choices and say I think I like this one better but no you're a zealot are there no Biden zealots do you know why there are no Biden zealots because he doesn't inspire any passion nobody really cares but if somebody cares about what you're doing well I guess you're you're a zealot if

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well I guess you're you're a zealot if people like what you're doing Trump's elet's are another matter so now she's gonna get to you guys many of you were Trump supporters they are part of the tradition of radical converts in American history who elected to forfeit their authentic personalities and principles rather than refine or strengthen them what what are these sentences even mean I don't know what you're saying all right so this is I'm talking to you this is all of you you're part of a tradition of radical converts maybe you didn't even know that did you know you're a radical convert or in your in the tradition of it and that you've forfeited your authentic personality and principals who did that did you do that did you forfeit your principles just because you like one candidate more than the other choices I'll think so I'll think your forfeit of

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I'll think so I'll think your forfeit of any principles even even the let's say the religious right who would not necessarily approve of Trump's personal life or his style even they haven't forfeited any principles they still exactly have the same principles all they did was look at their choices we've got one of these we got one of these we like this one better it's a world with tough choices nobody gets their exact candidate and who offered you your exact candidate nobody offered you don't get to pick your exact candidate that's not how it works you get the one that's good enough or better than the other ones all right then Virginia African says we need to stay focused do we do we need to stay focused on how so many Americans came to this pass and took this destructive course how did it happen to you you poor poor bastards you were you are such normal

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bastards you were you are such normal and happy people and then it must have been somehow the Trump cult pulled you in you became a zealot you gave away your your authentic personality and principles that happened to you did you notice because I'll bet you didn't notice that you were any different probably didn't notice and then she goes on to say that the Trump cult okay now you're a cult we'll define American politics for decades to come even after his Dear Leader is gone well yeah yeah president Trump's impact will affect things for decades that's true all right so all of this looks like crazy talked to me in which they're trying the the author is trying to construct something in a words that doesn't exist in the actual world but if you work it right it feels like you're talking about something of substance maybe not I have a friend who is a very

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maybe not I have a friend who is a very deep anti-trump er and he sent me a list of all the reasons that Trump is a disaster so I want you to read and I want you to tell you that this is a friend who is very intelligent right so we're talking about we're talking about a Democrat who I can I can confirm is one of the smartest people yell ever mate like super smart went to grade school etc so here are the things that he calls out for all the reasons that Trump is a disaster you ready number one economically massive income inequality when you woke up this morning did it go like this Oh waking up today oh my god has the income inequality gotten worse how will I go forward today how will I

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how will I go forward today how will I live with all the income inequality it's literally the thing nobody thinks about even poor people didn't wake up today and say ah the income inequality but I'll bet a lot of people who used to not have jobs but now do because unemployment is better than maybe ever I'll bet all those people are not complaining about income inequality because there's just got less so if the first thing on your list is a concept that nobody even feels talks about or cares about except it's something that people talk about on the news that's it that's your number one complaint your number one complaint and I've never even seen anybody making an argument that it even necessarily leads to anything bad directly or indirectly all right but he goes on he acknowledges a high employment okay good below wage growth what what what networker new sources is

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what what what networker new sources is he watching in which he thinks that one of the top complaints about this president is low wage growth is not our wage growth actually better is it not better than it's been under a prior present what what new source is he looking at and he's talking about people taking multiple gig jobs etc no that's all true but isn't it trending in the right direction I mean my new sources say it is trending in the right direction right the cost cost of living bah-bah-bah he goes on to say no progress on health care no progress on health care again what news source is he looking at when he says no progress on health care have there not been law changes that allow people to do things across state lines have there not been things out of the Health and Human

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things out of the Health and Human Services group I think it was in which no was at the FDA which every cabinet is that is promoting more generics so they sped up the generics so it lowers the price now you could say he hasn't done enough and I say that too so I criticize President Trump on not doing enough for health care but to say but to say no progress on health care that just means you're now watching the right news because there's been identifing clearly things that that make a real difference in health care not enough but they're real tax cuts help the rich that's just a talking point it's not something that you know is part of the real world the you know the whenever you talk about tax cuts helping the rich well I don't want to get into a long gill net but if the

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to get into a long gill net but if the rich pay most of the taxes a tax cuts gonna help them more if you want to put serious money into the economy you're probably gonna have to cut their taxes I don't want to give that argument but it's a weak it's a weak problem all right so cuts in food stamps and school lunches blah blah blah environmental regulations I have my own concerns about environmental stuff so I'd agree with him on that then he goes on to say socially there's more divisiveness than any time meaning race now if you're watching the news and you're watching both both the left and the right what do you say that President Trump is the cause of the racial divisiveness I wouldn't I'd say it's the way he's reported in other words the way he's covered it causes it because if you just reported what Trump does you would end up with what major Garrett said recently and he's no he's no pro chopper and he

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and he's no he's no pro chopper and he said that any president would be happy to have the the record that President Trump has already recorded for race so he's you know everything from prison reform to supporting historically black colleges etc so this is just a complete brainwashing situation where if you only watch the news on the left you would come to believe that the division the racial problems are because of Trump as opposed to the reporting it's just the reporting if they reported what he does instead of what they imagine he's thinking there wouldn't be any problem at all and I always say that I don't think that this problem goes down to real people I think it's a news problem I'm gonna sneeze aren't you

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news problem I'm gonna sneeze aren't you lucky I got the microphone just in time then he goes on to say that we have a disastrous trade war with China and it's hurt farmers and and I'm thinking the trade deals that he says that our disaster just got approved by both Democrats and Republicans even the Democrats say they're good deals compared to what we had when he talks about it hurt the farmers that was the plan the plan is that some part of our our economy would be hurt but in the long run it would be better in general that was that was the actual plan so to say it hurt one segment of the economy is not to say you shouldn't have done it and it's not to say it didn't work there was a cost so we could get these larger benefits and even and even the Democrats agreed they signed the deals so what new

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agreed they signed the deals so what new source are you watching that you're coming up with these opinions and then defense saying that you know getting out of the Iranian nuclear deal was all bad to which I responded was he aware that the old Iranian nuclear nuclear deal guaranteed that Iran would have nuclear weapons guaranteed it was that the deal he wanted and now we're looking at it the Trump just shut down their whole proxy business by killing the guy who was feeding it and you know maybe we'll be surprised but it's looking like proxy wars are down and it's looking like Iran's economy is on the brink meaning that they'll get flexible it's looking a lot to me like this is the best situation we've ever been in with and in fact the whole Middle East they throws him the abandonment of the Kurds in Syria have you heard an update on that have you heard any stories about

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that have you heard any stories about all the tragedies because of our abandonment of the Kurds maybe there's a bad stuff happening that we don't know about but have you heard of any because to me it looks like just another overreaction that if you were to look at what's actually happening on the ground and you talk to the Kurds they say yeah we're kind of we're kind of unhappy about this situation but it's working out what news is he looking at anyway the ending of intermediate nuclear weapons deal with Russia does that make any difference is Russia going to attack the United States with nuclear weapons I don't think so and do they need any extra ones if they want to destroy the United States would it matter if Russia got a little extra good nuclear weapons it doesn't really matter how many times they could destroy the United States if they just went if Russia just went from being able to destroy the United States guaranteed a

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destroy the United States guaranteed a hundred times over to a thousand times over did that make any difference I don't think so I don't think made any difference at all if we get in a war with Russia we're all dead details don't matter too much anyway and then he ends with most European and Asian countries think we are a joke and cannot wait for trump to leave what do we say about Justin Trudeau is the American view of Justin Trudeau or Angela Merkel or you named your leader are we not kind of laughing at them behind their backs I mean isn't it just normal business they laugh at our president they mock and we left their leaders we mock them does any of it mean anything it doesn't is is is the UK not going to do a trade agreement with us because that one time some people left

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because that one time some people left behind Trump's back or are they gonna say no now we can't do a trade deal with you because remember there was that one time we left behind your back so I guess we can't do a trade now it makes no difference they will do a trade deal because it's good for them they will be our allies and defense and NATO because it's good for them countries don't operate on the who laughed at you more behind your back to principle it's all based on self-interest and we're the biggest dog in every fight so self interests assumes that they will continue working with us alright that's enough on trumped arrangement syndrome I want to give you a some tips on stress reduction this is part of my ongoing series I'm gonna raise my hands again so if anybody's looking through later they're they're searching through this to find the part where I talk about this topic they'll see me with my hands in the air and know to stop it and watch it so anxiety is different

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and watch it so anxiety is different from stress anxiety can be that causeless thing that you're worried about and it's irrational but it's what it has at least a little overlap with stress in general and what I mean is if you could if you could lower your stress in general by doing all the right lifestyle stuff you're probably in better shape for handling everything else so if you've got some anxiety just normal stress reduction won't make it go away but it could lessen its effect on you so let's talk about that I treat stress reduction as a full-time job and I have since college prior to college I probably had more stress than I wanted and I said to myself you know I'm just gonna spend all of my time getting rid of this because I hate going through the day feeling stressed or anxious or whatever I'm gonna make it my full-time job that the stress is gonna go away and I'm gonna work in that so I wrote a red book

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work in that so I wrote a red book called how to failed almost everything and still win big about how to create systems that can fix your fitness and your your diet and you or sleep and all those things I want to talk today about sleep specifically and here's the thing I want to say people don't seem to realize the sleep is a learned skill some of you probably don't know that there are some people who think that they're not good at getting to sleep and they have trouble sleeping and there are other people who don't have trouble but I'm here to tell you that sleeping properly is a skill and it's not something you just want if all you're doing is I sure wish I slept better but you're not doing anything differently you don't understand how sleep works it's a skill and give it give you the skill and suggest that you make a system and of experimenting for your personal

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and of experimenting for your personal situation so we're all a little different so the tips I give you are close to universal but you might need to tweak them for your own purposes so you should experiment continuously continuously don't ever stop finding a better way to get a good sleep so change your pillows change your sheets get a different mattress just keep keep plugging at it those things might not make a difference in your case some cases they will but don't stop it's a lifelong process to get better as sleeping it's a skill here are some of the things you need to know number one if you can't get to sleep at night maybe you didn't work hard enough I know you don't want to hear that but in my own experience which I'm not suggesting necessarily extends to everybody else but in my experience if I have worked hard all day if I have exercised that day and that's that's the big one if I physically exercised and I've worked

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physically exercised and I've worked hard I never have trouble sleeping period and when I don't do enough of those two things I do it's pretty one-to-one correlation so the first thing you should say to yourself is what do I need to do with my day so that by the time I get in bed I'm primed to sleep if you're not active every day at least taking a long walk cleaning the garage it doesn't have to be going to the gym but if you haven't physically been active good luck getting to sleep because if your body isn't a little bit tired it's not going to it's not going to work for you so the first thing you should tell yourself is if you can't sleep maybe you didn't work hard enough which could have been just exercise for your own benefit it doesn't have to be work work the next thing you need to know is that your body and your mind are sort of a feedback loop so if you have some anxiety in your mind it'll it'll come out in your body so your body

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it'll come out in your body so your body will feel anxious and stressed what happens when your body feels anxious and stressed their feedback the feeds back to your mind so your mind is making your body anxious your anger but your body is making your mind anxious and it's just reinforcing it's hard to get your mind to just stop it's much easier to get your body to slow down because you can just exhaust it you just exercise until your body is just exhausted and that's one way you can break out of the loop because if your body's exhausted it's not going to be feedback the anxiety and stress so much to your brain and then your brain won't be part of the loop anymore so that's that's the main thing is stop thinking it's a brain problem and start thinking of it as a physical body problem exhaust your body your brain will follow here's the next thing

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brain will follow here's the next thing don't bring up bad topics after 8:00 p.m. you can adjust the APM to whenever your normal sleep time is but after about a p.m. especially if you're in a relationship it's tempting to let's say you haven't seen each other all day and you want to you want to talk about these these things because it's the only time you have you know the kids are in bed or whatever don't do it just don't do it eight o'clock or you know adjust for your own situation but after eight o'clock don't talk about the things that are gonna keep you awake just don't do it that's a big one and certainly don't have those conversations in bed after you get in bed definitely don't do that here's one of my biggest most important tips most of you will reject this but I promise you it's the most important so if there's only one thing you want to learn you know maybe the exercise is the

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learn you know maybe the exercise is the most important but in the top two is going to is wake up and go to sleep at the same time all week don't want to hear that do you do it because you want to get up you know when you have to go to work you want to get up early but then it's the weekend you like ah finally it's the weekend I can sleep in there's nothing worse for your sleep and if you ruined your sleep there's almost nothing worse except that maybe diet to hurt your overall health all right top rule get up the same time Saturday and Sunday or close to it right don't do the go to bed at 3:00 a.m. sleep till noon thing because you like the party it's fun now I understand the younger you are the more tempting that will be your social life might require it it might be how you meet people it might be integral to who you are but if you do that just know that the trade-off is you will be

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know that the trade-off is you will be tired and sleepy and it will cost you everywhere else in your life probably not worth it so I also say that alcohol is poison so if you're drinking you're going to have sleep problems independent of the fact that might keep you up late so number-one rule get up and go to sleep approximately the same times every day of the week because if you don't turn it into a habit that your body recognizes as a habit it's going to be tough got to turn it into a habit so that your body at about nine nine 10 p.m. is already telling you go to sleep go to sleep here's one don't let your bed be the place that you used to not sleep and this means several things don't go to bed and then start a task don't go to bed and do a project while you're in bed don't go to bed and watch TV unless you're one of those people the TV puts you to sleep that's a different situation don't don't

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that's a different situation don't don't use your bed for anything but sleeping and of course sex those two things are the only things your bed should be if you find that it's 1 a.m. in the morning and you can't sleep and and you put into work rights you've tossed and turned and you're just not gonna sleep get up get out of bed get completely out of bed go go sit in the couch go pet the dog go walk around try it again in 15 minutes because you want your bed to be the place that you do sleep not the thing that you go into your toss and turn when you can't sleep so if you know you're not going to get to sleep in the next half hour because you you can just tell it's just not going to happen get up and by the way this is what the experts recommend I'm not I'm not making up any of this there's nothing that I'm saying that doesn't come directly from pretty much all experts it's probably bad to be looking at your devices in bed put them away I know that's tempting but these glowing screens are just terrible

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these glowing screens are just terrible for your for your sleep here's another tip you want your room to be as dark as possible ideally completely dark the more light there is the less you can sleep it's purely biological there will be people who tell you now I sleep better when there's a little light on because maybe you're afraid if it gets too dark or whatever but I would suggest that biologically there's probably no exception biologically probably the darker it is the better so get blackout curtains in your bedroom if you can
keep away from caffeine you know too late in the afternoon that's going to keep you up temperature is important I like it cold other people don't and here's another one don't do the don't do the list of what you do tomorrow while you're in bed never ever get in bed and then run through what you have to do

[44:27]

then run through what you have to do tomorrow I treat I treat the next day as though it doesn't exist when I go to bed I spend zero time thinking about tomorrow you should get in that habit never think about tomorrow while you're in bed it's the worst thing you could do never think about your list your chores your anything if you're concerned about those things get up an hour earlier you know go to bed earlier and get up our it's a good thing to get up early reduce your stress you're not going to be late read some things have your coffee make your to-do list once you're fresh in the morning that's your best thing to do and then as as I said the start all of these are just starting tips if you do these starting tips that's just gonna get you going but this should be a lifetime of experimentation do you sleep better at this temperature do you sleep better with a fan fan is good sort of background sound obviously better in

[45:28]

background sound obviously better in pajamas do you sleep better in this kind of sheet just keep at it it's your full-time job to make sure that you don't have a stress now reducing your stress as I said doesn't get rid of you know deep-rooted anxiety problems but you don't want both right you don't want to have anxiety that you've always had all your life that's just sort of there for various situations you don't want to add to that by being also stressed so treat them as if they're a pair of things and you don't want them working together so if you can get rid of one do it alright what if your spouse needs exact opposite of you to sleep that's a big problem I mean ultimately that's that's a personal problem there I will let me tell you this okay I'm going to tell you something that we'll change the lives of a bunch of you percentage-wise not that many but a lot of you because or I know close to 3,000 people watching this probably a hundred

[46:29]

people watching this probably a hundred thousand people will watch this by the time it's done and distribute it to different platforms and a hundred thousand a whole bunch of you are going to have your whole situation changed by what I tell you next people don't talk about it because it's embarrassing but you can see in the comments that people sleep in separate bedrooms very commonly when they're married very commonly you can see it in the comments are just going crazy with people saying separate rooms have a room separate rooms if you have the luxury and it's totally a luxury and one of you snores or what if he needs a different temperature or you sleep at different times whatever is going on just know and here's the part where I'm helping you just know that if you have a gathering of your best friends you know a bunch of couples and set a party just look around the room I

[47:32]

set a party just look around the room I guarantee you one third of those people are sleeping in separate rooms and they're just not telling you because people don't like to admit that because it sounds like there's something wrong when actually it's just a better way to sleep so simply knowing that it's a normal thing and lots of normal people do it they just don't talk about it just freed about 10,000 people who just said seriously normal people with good relationships sometimes sleep in separate rooms no not sometimes very commonly so if you're one of those people who needs to do that you you have all the social freedom you need you probably won't talk about it either that's it all right that's all for now I'll talk to you later