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Sleep improvement is one of the most valuable skills you can build — and unlike most health habits, the science on how to do it is surprisingly clear. A friend of mine used to set four alarms every morning. Not because she liked mornings. Because she needed three chances to ignore them before dragging herself out of bed. She drank two large coffees by 9am just to feel human. By 2pm, she was useless — staring at her screen, re-reading the same paragraph three times. She blamed stress. She blamed her job. She blamed the neighbor's dog. It wasn't any of those things. It was her sleep. Not just how much she got, but how she'd been getting it — and she didn't know there was a difference until she learned a few things about how sleep actually works. Within three weeks of making specific, science-backed changes, she was waking up before her alarm. For real. If that sounds implausible, you're not alone in thinking that. Most people treat bad sleep like bad weather — s...