Why the Top Students are Never Tired

Top students understand that being tired is not an option when it comes to academic performance. This is because getting good sleep BOTH before AND after a study session is ideal for learning and retention. Let's dive into the science and look at how this happens.

🙏 Thanks for watching!
- Mike and Matty

00:00 Introduction
1:11 Survival
4:35 Learning
6:29 Performance

[yawsanevruh]

I experimented with sleep during my sophomore year of high school, and needless to say, I performed significantly worse when I was getting 4-5 hours of sleep every single day of the week (no naps afterschool, just 4-5 hours of sleep before school). I noted that it is best for me to get between 6.5-7.5 hours of sleep. Also, I learned about sleep cycles, and that each sleep cycle is about 90 minutes, and you should wake up at the end of each sleep cycle to wake up feeling a lot less tired. Then of course, there are the geniuses at my high school who are involved in so many extracurriculars, they get home at like 8-9pm and then they have several hours of AP class homework, get like 4 hours of sleep every day, and are still at the top of the class and get A’s on every test lmao

[AMQLOL]

" you need (8-10) hours of sleep"

School: 5 is enough 😍

[DemetriPanici]

*"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong*

[nicholasfung]

Basically, sleep is underrated. It is essential for all animals and is a fundamental aspect of life. During the sleep period, growth and restoration of cells occur in which potentially harmful cells are also extinguished. With regard to our body function, sleep creates long-term memories - both explicit (conscious memories) and inexplicit (subconscious/muscle memories) - which as a result may increase memory retention/recall or ability to perform skills. For example, the knowledge that is acquired from study throughout the day can be "saved" or retained through sleep, where it can be recalled in the future. So, memories are created only via sleep, and our ability to retain information after learning is mostly dependent on sleep.

[aricarly]

Oddly, both in my HS and at university, the best students were always (strategically) missing classes because they didn't woke up on time or constantly took naps. While the regular and not so good students were always present, and tired.

[DoctorAzmain]

We give sleep far too little importance, but it's not just our studying that's affected! As you say, it's literally our life expectancy! There's ongoing research about the "glymphatic" system, our brain's toxin clearing system, that shows it works mostly during sleep. Doing night shifts and late shifts isn't the best - but I'm definitely gonna try harder to get proper sleep whenever I can!

[auntiemichelleoutdoorsygir]

I am a registered sleep technologist, monitoring/treating people for sleep issues for over 16 years. What bothers me after watching so many of these sleep videos is that so many physicians and research scientists who teach sleep do not address those who have neurological disorders, lung disorders, heart issues, etc that affect sleep. Public, it’s about quality sleep not just “sleeping”. If you’re over 40, it’s a must to undergo an in lab sleep study to address other issues. Many physicians barely touch upon these subjects unless you’re a sleep physician. Sleep medicine is sort of a “new discovery”.

[alnimri]

"All that hard work... Gone"
"Gains... Gone"
"Childhood... *_Gon_* "

That was one sneaky word play!

[AhmetKaan]

🙏 *5 Things to Never Do in Rush:*

*1) Giving away your trust*
*2) Making big desicions*
*3) Judging someone's character*
*4) Falling in love*
*5) Eating your food*

[localantag]

As someone who feels unproductive because I sleep 10-12 hours a night on average and has since forever...this is so comforting. I always feel like sleeping as much as I do makes it so I have to rush everywhere because most of the world only gets 7-9 hours of rest every night. I've always felt weirdly guilty and lazy about my natural sleeping inclinations, so it's good to know that they're not bad at all, actually. When I wake up after a long night's sleep, I'm IMMEDIATELY productive, no need for coffee and a shower and all these wake-up chores. Cool to know Usain Bolt is the same way.

[ladabrailovskaya]

We watch your videos in our English calss. I'm from Russia and our professors decided to include your videos about universities into our curriculum! Thank you😌

[Kupkaik]

I'm 26 and I study radiology. My GPA is currently 3.81 and last semester I took 15 credits. It was honestly brutal but sleep is so important. I made sure i got my 8 hours of sleep every single night and it paid off. I feel the reading itself is something a lot of people don't really understand how to do efficiently for many of the classes I took. All of which were remote and online classes. If I had an introductory paragraph which mentioned 5 different things such as nephrons, glomerular capsule, distal tubule, proximal tubule, etc. I would know that the next 5 paragraphs would be about that, in roughly that order. Typically, each subsequent paragraph would start by introducing what it is (nephron), where it's located, what the function is, how it functions, in almost that exact order. From that alone I'm able to skip through all of the filler words to find specifically what I'm looking for. Books do not tell you how something functions before telling you the function. The level of organization in text books is very well thought out. From simply understanding how to read my books I'm much more efficient in finding and summarizing the info I need and better able to make the flash cards I need.

My studying technique was mostly just that, summarizing everything I'm reading into the primary components of interrogatives. (what, where, how, why, when) and I'm able to create nearly 5 flash cards for every single term I've learned. In a study session where I have over 75 terms, that's roughly 400 flash cards. I then go 30 at a time. I learn 30, I move on to the next 30. Once I get through them all, I put them all together and do it all as a single unit. Any cards I'm missing, I make more flash cards of that term so I see it more often.

This is how I studied my classes, and it's also how I wrote all of my research papers and essays getting an A on every single one.

[AhmetKaan]

Sometimes when we are bored, we just want time to pass. *Don't watch the clock and waste time, do what it does. Keep going.*

[beeiolin]

As someone who is planning to be a student-athlete, this video made me realize that I need to stop overworking myself day and night. The reason why I wasn't playing well or being able to focus in class better than usual is that on those days I didn't get enough sleep. Your video made me realize how bad I need to manage my time for academics, sports, and some rest time. I will definitely continue to watch more stuff from you as I want to really learn how to be a better student yet still get a lot of rest.

[hajada]

That moment when you’re in 8th grade and you’re already trying these things out and trying to get better at studying

[timaa.]

You guys should start a podcast. I would 100% listen to it.

[DemetriPanici]

I've figured out a formula personally to make it so that I'm pretty much never tired. Intermittent fasting and that video you made a while back really is helping me not spike my glucose as bad

[frequency]

One thing we all can agree on is that the amount of hard work and dedication these guys put into these videos are just incredible!!keep up the good work Mike and Matty love you’ll forever ❤️❤️❤️

[andi]

“Just sleep faster.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

[univrs_]

i convinced myself that i function better with only 3-5 hours of sleep. i literally fall asleep everywhere, even in classes, and can't properly do my school works. needless to say, i get 6-8 hours of sleep now and is doing pretty well with school :)