yep.

eat healthy food as much as possible.

walk. exercise. and SLEEP.

asdfman123 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IMO developing good sleep hygiene is by far the most important habit to cultivate.

It has lots of benefits, but the most important one is it replenishes your willpower. If you're trying to develop other healthy habits, it's 10x harder if you haven't slept well.

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mattv8 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's also the easiest to implement, imo. But there is a tradeoff: fewer waking hours during your best years cognitively for more years when you're older...

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Touche 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Poor sleep is a widespread problem and very few of those people are cognitively doing it intentionally as some sort of "tradeoff". The number of people "grinding on a startup" is tiny compared to the population of people who suffer from this problem. Instead it's caused by things like general anxiety, too much screen time before bed, or not having consistent sleep schedules. And other health related reasons that compound the problem.

	▲	sersi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can add having a child to the list. Nothing has caused more disruption to my sleep as my son has done

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Centigonal 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Waking hours is both a quantity game and a quality game. I don't remember too much from the parts of my life where I was very sleep deprived

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lukan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"eat healthy food as much as possible."

I usually stop, if my body signals me I had enough.

(might seem like pedantery, but I know some people do believe it literally, that it is healthy to just fill themself up with "healthy food", but it is not).

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bookofjoe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the commenter meant such that as much as possible of your diet consists of healthy rather than unhealthy food — NOT as great a quantity as you can take in.

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lukan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I know, I took the literal meaning because I know some do live by that.

	▲	bookofjoe 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair enough! Just because I don't doesn't mean I shouldn't broaden my scope.