I scrubbed in on a 4-hour paraesophageal hernia last night, then i got laid, and now three ambulances are coming in full of bloody, broken car crash victims, all who need to be cut open.
It's important because it stores the training exercises and the learning exercises into our more permanent memory while we're sleeping 7-8 hours in bed.
I try to aim for a solid eight hours, but in reality it's probably closer to six or seven and a half with all the tossing and turning and waking up in the middle of the night that frequently happens.
We actually have a much better chance of feeling better during the day than if it becomes this mythical thing that you have to get eight hours because all it's done is move this mark for us for failure.
So we want to understand that if we can prioritize our sleep, we want to choose to do so, but not to become so stressed and anxious that we have to get seven to nine hours sleep.
So, the night before the test, go to sleep early, get a full eight hours of solid sleep, wake up early, do whatever you need to do in the morning, go to the test center relaxed.
And I wouldn't obsess over, you know, these kind of scary things that we hear, oh, if we're not getting seven to eight hours that we get dementia, et cetera, because that's not necessarily the case.
And it's like, if you believe sleep is essential, it's essential to get eight hours of sleep every single night perfectly, then you're going to be very stressed when you don't get it.
It's really difficult I mean, I don't know how many people actually do get eight hours I mean for people who need that like they actually need eight hours.
And you know, on those days that you're getting eight hours of sleep, the functioning that you might have after that versus if you travel internationally.