Brief summary
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences – on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness.
What is needed, she boldly asserts, is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In her bestseller Thrive, Arianna wrote about our need to redefine success through well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Her discussion of the importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of living struck such a powerful chord that she realized the mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller investigation.
The result is a sweeping, scientifically rigorous, and deeply personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the new golden age of sleep science that is revealing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health – from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives -- and even our sex lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream.
She takes on the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.
In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually-harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important – and elusive -- than ever.
The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
ISBN:9781101904008
Author:Arianna Huffington
Laura –
The writing style is slightly dense and may require rereading paragraphs to grasp some stories. However, the stories are beautifully told and Troy evokes a roller coaster of emotions in this collection of 12 raw short stories.
Laura –
The writing style is slightly dense and may require rereading paragraphs to grasp some stories. However, the book is well written and Troy evokes a roller coaster of emotions through these raw stories.
Rehema Zuberi –
I have read a lot of short-story collections this year and this is by far the best! I have lightly interacted with the existence of Troy Onyango but I can’t say that I had read him before receiving this book as a gift. Because I trust a lot of recommendations from people I share the same tastes with, this had already climbed high on my reading list from the constant fawning of a friend about its goodness.
I was not prepared for the amazing storylines I experienced, the lyrical language and the endings which came abruptly and some left me confused. This did not deter my loving the book as thoroughly as I did. It now sits up above with the rest of my top books.
There is so much validation in it for the queer community which at first came to me as shocking because I did not expect it at all. It is not every day queer people are represented as well as they are in this collection. This is the book of our times.