when all looks ok

Before the invention of eyewear (and printed paper), some people could not realize they were missing something (sight).

It’s when printed paper was invented and became widespread (news, books), that people started realizing that there was something missing for some of them.

It was then that glasses to improve eyesight became popular.

I’ve had a similar experience with sleep. I always thought I was sleeping well; I never had trouble getting to sleep or sleeping till morning. No interruptions.

From the outside, it looked great. But there was a stat on my iPhone that was always too low, “Deep Sleep”.  It was not that stat to trigger my search for improvements, but it was a rough time in my life, and it was only by accident that we landed on checking if sleep was the problem.

The thing that’s fascinating here is how many benefits I got from having better sleep. More focus, less sleepiness at night.

All these things, which are probably common for other people and that I wasn’t aware of before starting this quest.

Don’t take for granted any kind of status (physical, mental, etc), but question it because you don’t know where the “False assumption” lies (in my example, the false assumption was to think that my sleep pattern was normal).