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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: How much sleep do you really need?

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The second possible explanation is poor sleep quality, because we know that sleep quality, independent of sleep qttnuaiy, is also associated with mortality risk. And the lower that your quality of sleep is, the higher your risk of death.

People who have poor quality of sleep will typically try to sleep longer; they'll try to stay in bed longer to omvroece that poor qialuty of sleep. It may be poor quality of sleep masquerading as long sleep that is associated with a hghier risk of death, rather than the long sleep itself.

But if we take a step back and think about society overall, I think modernity is constantly pnhuisg us to, perhaps, work long huors and therefore neglect our sleep. But if we want to be around long enough to get the benefits and the futris of all of that hard lboar, we may want to think about sntaritg to prioritize our sleep some more.

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The second possible explanation is poor sleep quality, because we know that sleep quality, independent of sleep ________, is also associated with mortality risk. And the lower that your quality of sleep is, the higher your risk of death.

People who have poor quality of sleep will typically try to sleep longer; they'll try to stay in bed longer to ________ that poor _______ of sleep. It may be poor quality of sleep masquerading as long sleep that is associated with a ______ risk of death, rather than the long sleep itself.

But if we take a step back and think about society overall, I think modernity is constantly _______ us to, perhaps, work long _____ and therefore neglect our sleep. But if we want to be around long enough to get the benefits and the ______ of all of that hard _____, we may want to think about ________ to prioritize our sleep some more.

Solution


  1. overcome
  2. pushing
  3. hours
  4. quality
  5. fruits
  6. starting
  7. labor
  8. quantity
  9. higher

Original Text


The second possible explanation is poor sleep quality, because we know that sleep quality, independent of sleep quantity, is also associated with mortality risk. And the lower that your quality of sleep is, the higher your risk of death.

People who have poor quality of sleep will typically try to sleep longer; they'll try to stay in bed longer to overcome that poor quality of sleep. It may be poor quality of sleep masquerading as long sleep that is associated with a higher risk of death, rather than the long sleep itself.

But if we take a step back and think about society overall, I think modernity is constantly pushing us to, perhaps, work long hours and therefore neglect our sleep. But if we want to be around long enough to get the benefits and the fruits of all of that hard labor, we may want to think about starting to prioritize our sleep some more.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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