Last week, a friend asked what’s the one book everybody should read. I said Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill. If she had asked me this week, the answer would have been tougher, it might have at least been a tie.
Books change lives, hearts, and minds in all kinds of ways. This book might have very well saved mine, not just changed it. That sounds like hyperbole, but I truly did not know how much I did not know about sleep, and this book shook me up. It’s fascinating, it’s horrifying, and it’s absolutely wonderful to have concrete proof of what I’ve got to change.
Just two weeks of putting sleep first, and getting the right kind of sleep, I already see a huge difference. I feel like a real person again. I’m (hopefully) still young enough that the damage is salvageable. And by gosh, we’ve got to change the way we think about sleep as a culture at large. No more celebrating chronic sleep deprivation. Rest has got to come first.
Very highly recommended. It’s that one rare book that, yeah, I don’t think there’s many people it couldn’t help. It’s great fun to read too. I’m glad it scared me straight.