The key takeaway is to take many, many brakes throughout the day. They should be social, they should be outdoors, you should be moving around and you should be fully detached from the work that you're doing. Now sometimes you can't meet all four criteria. If you live in alaska and it's winter and it's night time, you probably don't want to go outdoors. There are realistic barriers that we face in the application of this action item in everyday life.
#353: Daniel Pink joins us to discuss an unusual theory:
(1) that our energy rises, falls, and then rises again;
(2) that this pattern plays out across our days (morning energy, afternoon slump, nighttime second wind);
(3) this also plays out across our lives, with serious implications for how we spend those “muddled middle” years of our 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.
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