What I learned from reading Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way by Ryan White and A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.
I think you're going to like this episode.
I did a ton of prep and research.
I read over 700 pages, read a bunch of articles on all his different business holdings, and then I also watched his documentary where he was interviewed for about an hour over 20 years ago.
And he said something in that documentary that I thought was fascinating.
He also mentions it in one of the biographies as well.
And he talked about the more serious he got in his career.
The older he got, the more serious he took in the practice of his craft and the service that he was providing to his customers, the more important his sleep became.
And Jimmy had a great line where he's like, I wake up now.
At the time, I used to go to bed, and Jimmy's not alone in that realization that, hey, the quality of your sleep is tied to the quality of decisions you make and the quality of the product and the service that you're putting out.
And so, therefore, you should try to do everything you can to optimize and make sure that you're getting the best rest possible.
And the only thing that I have found that has actually improved my sleep has been an eight sleep.
I have never had the ability before to change the temperature of my bed before I had an eight sleep, I had no idea how that one thing would actually improve the quality of my sleep.
I like to keep my eight sleep ice cold, and I make sure that it's cold before I get into bed so I can fall asleep faster and I wake up less during the night.
I truly believe that feature alone is worth ten times the price.
Eight sleep is so good that now every time I travel, you know, the product's good is because you notice its absence.
It's to the point now when I know if I have to travel, I'm like, oh, my goodness, I'm not going to have my eight sleep.
And that realization is spreading.
I've heard from a bunch of people, listen to founders that bought their eight sleep and love it, but it's also spreading in my own household.
My daughter was feeling down, and she wanted to sleep in bed with her mom.
And so I gave her my side of, obviously, the bed, and I was like, hey, do you want me to keep the eight sleep on, or do you want me to turn it off?