Consistently getting 6 to 6.5 hours of sleep per night is more beneficial than fluctuating sleep durations.

“some people just have a lower sleep need. And I find great relief, personally, in the fact that consistently getting, for me, about six hours or six and a half hours is going to be more beneficial than constantly striving for eight or nine and finding that some nights I'm getting five and sometimes I'm getting nine and varying around the mean.”

“I find great relief personally in the fact that consistently getting, for me, about 6 hours or 6 and 1/2 hours is going to be more beneficial than constantly striving for eight or nine and finding that some nights I'm getting five and sometimes I'm getting nine and varying around the mean.”

“I had someone at UCSF who, God, she slept like four hours a night, and I was like, "This is impossible."”