![]() ![]() ![]() And to do that, we need to stop seeing sleep as purely physiological and start considering its transcendent significance. Instead of worrying about how we can more efficiently induce sleep, we need to stop resisting it. And we Americans are not unusually afflicted-one 2016 study reported that worldwide, 10 to 30 percent of the population experiences insomnia some studies find rates as high as 50 to 60 percent.īut behind this torment resides an opportunity to increase our quality of life, if we can change our relationship with our slumbering selves. ![]() Insomnia affects between a third and a half of U.S. It is easy to regard sleep as a torment: hard to attain and then hard to give up, day after day after day.Īccording to the CDC, about 70 million Americans have chronic sleep problems. When you should be sleeping, you want to be awake when you should be awake, you want to stay asleep. “ How to Build a Life ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness.į or many people, the cruelest part of daily life is the transition between wakefulness and sleep. ![]()
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