Matthew Walker
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Matthew Walker reads as The Visionary because he has treated sleep not as a niche of neuroscience but as a frontier worth redrawing the map for. The UC Berkeley scientist and author of Why We Sleep leads by making the case that something long dismissed as passive is in fact foundational, and by carrying that argument well beyond the laboratory, including to The Diary of a CEO, where the scale of his conviction is unmistakable.
“Is there any major physiological system in your body or any operation of your mind that isn't wonderfully enhanced by sleep when you get it or demonstrably impaired when you don't? The answer now seems to be no.”
“My mission has been trying to reunite humanity with the sleep that it seems to be so bereft of.”
“Sleep can change the fabric of society, can change how we interact with other people, it can change our belief systems, it can change how lonely or hypersocial we are.”
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