Sleep Is For The Weak... Until Your Brain Fails with Dr. Els van der Helm
We wear four hours of sleep like a badge of honour, chug espresso to mask the cognitive rot, and call it ambition. It isn’t. It’s a slow-motion sabotage of your own brain.
In high-pressure worlds running on empty is treated as the baseline price of entry. Yet the hidden tax is brutal: fractured judgment, hair-trigger emotional reactivity, and missed signals that cost careers and companies.
We're sitting down with Dr. Els van der Helm, sleep neuroscientist, former McKinsey consultant, and the mind advising global CEOs from Meta to Novartis, to dismantle the mythology of the grind and improve our performance through sleep.
We will dive into what actually happens to your prefrontal cortex and emotional regulation when you cut corners on REM, how to stop fighting your internal clock and weaponise your peak cognitive windows, and how to survive unavoidable periods of sleep deprivation without going completely crazy.
Afterwards, maybe we will be able to cut down to 4 cups of coffee a day instead of 5.
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