Focus, Sleep, and Stress: The 90-Minute Method Behind Better Work with Christian Poensgen

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I'm your host, Eric Fisher. My guest today is Dr. Christian Punskin, a scientist turned coach whose doctoral work was on the relationship between stress and performance. And his co author, Eric Partaker. uh has a new book. They have a new book called Ultra Productive, the Ninety Minute Method to Optimize Focus. Sleep.

And stress. Now The book opens on Eric's story, a heart attack at thirty-six thousand feet, but Christian's wake up call was more of a quiet one, no drama, no ambulance, just waking up every morning feeling like A truck had hit him. And

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