Most people aren’t getting enough sleep, plain and simple. But — and this is the important thing to realize — we don’t recognize that we are sleep deprived.
Nearly 2,500 years ago, there was a man of incredible strength and athleticism roaming the hills of southern Italy. His name was Milo of Croton and he was almost certainly the most successful wrestler of his day.
In 1936, a man named Kurt Lewin wrote a simple equation that changed the way we think about habits and human behavior.
A lot of people want to build an exercise habit that sticks. (A 2012 survey analyzed the top ten habits of thousands of people and found that exercise was number one by a long shot. [1])
We often measure our progress by looking forward. We set goals. We plan milestones for our progress. Basically, we try to predict the future to some degree.
We do this in business, in health, and in life at large.