After big mind work, you then take a 20 minute break to go on a walk in nature or do something that is restorative for you but low key strain on your mind. And that should be non-digital work. It can be digital but if you've got five minutes before a really tough meeting and you just need to get your mind a little bit refreshed, it's okay to do some simple thing on your phone or computer. That's not a bad thing at all. What's bad is when we get stuck in a rabbit hole, when we can't stop, that's what's bad. You have to be strategic and you have to be intentional so that what you're doing
Do you ever feel like there's something in the modern world that fries your brain, that leaves you in red brain, where you're just so pulled in a million directions all the time that it's hard to actually give attention to what's essential? Well, in part two of my conversation with Dr. Gloria Mark, we get into some specific questions you can ask yourself to be able to assess how you are doing and what you can do to increase, and then protect, your peak attention hours.
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