Episode 570: 3 Reasons Why You Aren't Sleeping Properly

**Tony Robbins** (0:01)
Hi, guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle.

**Jen Cohen** (0:04)
Crush it!
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Welcome to another solo of Habits and Hustle. We are very excited to be doing this podcast because we all love it, we all know what it is. It's about sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Sleep has become-

**Tony Robbins** (2:20)
Can we take a nap right now, just to-

**Jen Cohen** (2:22)
You can take a nap right after we finish.

**Tony Robbins** (2:23)
That's so good, great.

**Jen Cohen** (2:25)
Sleep has become like the hottest hashtag on the internet, the worldwide web, social media. It's the number one thing they say for health, longevity, anti-aging, just everything.
That's what the new thing is. That's the new, the top health modality. The number one health tip is to sleep. So why is it, if that is the case, why are we sleeping worse than ever when we have a million apps, a million gadgets, a million of everything to improve our sleep? Do you know that our sleep is becoming progressively worse year by year?

**Tony Robbins** (3:03)
Of course, screen time.

**Jen Cohen** (3:04)
What?

**Tony Robbins** (3:05)
Screen time.

**Jen Cohen** (3:06)
It's more than just screen time. It's because we're putting so much focus and attention and thoughts about sleep that it's actually interfering with our sleep.

**Tony Robbins** (3:16)
So I don't think that's the universal issue across the board.

**Jen Cohen** (3:19)
No, 100 percent. This is why we're doing this podcast right now.

**Tony Robbins** (3:21)
But as in everybody in America is losing sleep because they're thinking about sleep?

**Jen Cohen** (3:25)
No, what I'm saying is, listen, I'm saying, I'm not generalizing right now. What I'm saying is, we are spending over billions of dollars a year on ways to improve our overall sleep, right? With apps and technology, of course, and gadgets and all sorts of things. And the more we do that, it's becoming actually, the more we do that, the worse our not just our sleep is, the type of sleep we're doing. So instead of sleeping like a deep, restful sleep, we may be sleeping, but poorly, we're not falling asleep as fast.

**Tony Robbins** (3:59)
Is that causation or just correlation? Like I don't think that that's-

**Jen Cohen** (4:02)
Well, let me get to my point.

**Tony Robbins** (4:03)
Okay.

**Jen Cohen** (4:04)
Unless you want to interrupt me again.

**Tony Robbins** (4:05)
No, wait till you get to the point.

**Jen Cohen** (4:08)
I'm so excited.

**Tony Robbins** (4:10)
I'm so excited.

**Jen Cohen** (4:11)
So long winded. But no, the point is, one of the things is that the less you think about sleep, the better your sleep will become. So I said to my daughter the other day, you can't fall asleep. I said, you should count sheep. And so what happened?
She counted the sheep, came back to my room, and she's like, Mom, I counted the sheep, and I'm still awake. So that made me go down this whole rabbit hole, which then basically was another proof that the more attention that you put on the idea of you not sleeping, the less you're actually going to sleep. And there's been research to back the fact that counting sheep is actually a really bad thing to do if you want to fall asleep. So number one sleep tip is A, don't count sheep and don't focus and think about you sleeping if you want to sleep better. That's part one. Part two is that they did a big study and they found that people whose diet was unprocessed vegetables, fruit versus the same people eating a very processed diet of high sugar, high fat. They actually slept the same amount, but the quality of their sleep was exceptionally worse.