Episode 100: Camilla Kring - Sleep and Society
Camilla Kring is an author, a global speaker, and is the founder of B-Society, an organization fighting for "chronotype equality." During our conversation, Camilla talks about night owls and morning birds, why humans have a wide spectrum of sleep cycles, our cultural bias towards early birds, the damage done to night owls who are asked to fit into a morning bird society, and how we might be able to provide greater time autonomy to people to live in accordance with their own rhythms.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 An "A person" vs "B person"
02:42 Social jet lag of night owls
04:17 Evolutionary reasons for night owls
11:17 How society became biased against night owls
15:32 Are night owls lazy?
21:02 The range of preferred sleeping cycles in humans
26:29 The guilt of and bias against night owls
32:14 Advice for night owls who can't control their schedule
36:12 How AM sunlight and light exposure helps people
37:22 The importance of sleep
43:18 Chronotypes and a quote from "Why We Sleep"
48:46 Can night owls turn into morning birds?
54:32 Is our society chronically sleep-deprived?
58:25 How does a sane society approach sleep?
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