Why You Can't Outwork Bad Sleep (with Shimin Ooi)
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This episode discusses the importance of sleep and its foundational role in productivity, featuring insights from sleep expert Shimin Ooi.
This episode is brought to you by The 10 Second Inbox—a small, tactical system for taming email without chasing inbox zero. One ten-second decision per message, one calm inbox you can glance at and close. It's launch priced at $29 (reg. $49) through July 26th. Get it at mikevardy.com/10secondinbox (code INBOXTODAY auto-applies). We tend to treat sleep like the thing we'll get to once everything else is handled — the line item we trim first when life speeds back up. But sleep isn't the reward for a productive day. It's the foundation that makes one possible. And one of the more uncomfortable truths about it is that you can't outwork it, out-exercise it, or optimize your way around it. My guest this week is Shimin Ooi , who leads Sleep Reset, a sleep clinic built around CBT-I — the gold-standard approach to insomnia. Shimin's interest in this isn't academic. She spent her childhood with undiagnosed pediatric sleep apnea, sleeping ten hours a night and still exhausted, until her late teens. Fixing it was, in her words, night and day, and that experience shapes how she helps people find genuinely restorative sleep. What surfaced again and again in our conversation is how often the…
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