5.0
funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

This book should be mandatory reading for every human being--where I work in early education, we regularly emphasize the importance of sleep for both children as well as educators in terms of learning, development, regulation, etc. Reading this book just emphasizes the importance that much more. I appreciate the deeper look at what's happening on a neurological or cellular level when we experience a lack of sleep. For example, it's one thing to know that sleep impacts cognitive performance, but to have a better idea of how significantly, and what's affected most, is eye-opening and humbling. He makes the science easy to understand with helpful analogies, and while he is very clear about the hard realities of sleep disruption, he also provides ideas and hope to restore sleep at an individual and societal level.