Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind

If you're looking for simple, straightforward advice for getting better sleep, this book is for you.I don't agree with the critical review that this book is "shockingly empty". If you're looking for a book that provides a very technical look at sleep, there are other options. This book gives you specific strategies for better sleep that elite athletes use. Sure, an 8th grader might know that caffeine will give you energy, but plenty of adults misuse it and simple advice about using caffeine to your advantage (like a professional cyclist) could be a game changer. If you're struggling with sleep, pick up this book and put the principles into practice. While the author does sell a sleep kit and mentions it repeatedly, it's never presented as a "must-have" (rather as a way of having a consistent sleeping surface). Much of the valuable advice is in the first half of the book, but it's a relatively quick read that should help you look at sleep in a different light (pun intended).

If you’re interested in sleeping better and taking your physical and mental performance to the next level, look no further.Nick Littlehales has coached some of the best athletes on the planet on how they can use sleep as a tool to enhance their recovery and thus perform better than their peers.In this book, he details the exact strategies you can use to sleep more efficiently and effectively so you can look, feel and perform at your best.Forget about the 8 hours a night. Nick shares a new flexible way of sleeping that utilises ‘Controlled Recovery Times’ meaning you can actually sleep less at night, yet still perform more!Thank you for this Nick 🙏🏽

This book is loaded with valuable information. Read, learn and apply it. Your life quality will improve.

It’s a MUST BUY book. Honestly, I think, this is the best book I’ve ever read. Nick’s program/approach is amazing in the world we are living. Everyone is busy, compromises sleep ... what for? To be sick eventually? Nick leads the way in changing that. We all want to be healthy and live a long life. Sleep and recovery is very important for that. SLEEP. Read this book and you will understand.

This book changed my sleeping life or recovery as it is called in here. But just in my opinion the second half of the book wasnt really needed except for one or two pages. The first half however is perfect!

Provides a new way to look at sleep and discusses its important in our long term health. A good read for anyone struggling with sleep.

Sleep is the best tool for all recovery goals for anybody who takes pride in being elite. This book gives readers a different way of looking at how to get quality sleep and routinize your sleep schedule.

Shockingly vacuous book. Always been interested in learning about and improving my sleep, I bought it after listening to Aubrey Marcus plug it on the Tim Ferriss podcast. The author offers no real insight into sleep that one with an 8th grade education and a passing interest in man's most time-consuming function doesn't already possess. The title is misleading and even the text itself contradicts the notion that 8 hours a night is a "myth" (in fact, this is about right for most people). The author repeatedly tries to sell these "sleep kits" he's put together throughout the book.Let me save you the time in buying and reading this garbage. All the tips in this book are obvious: Dark cool room, limit screen time before bed, naps are ok, your sleep occurs in cycles of about 90 minutes, try to get "enough" cycles per week (duh).

Good read

Listen to the pod cast first to get a flavour of what this book is all about. I sleep so much better now.