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How to Break Up With Your Phone and Have More Fun

The Wellness Scoop

CHAPTER

How Fun Can Make You More Productive

Fun also helps us become more productive in a different way, which is that it helps us to actually take braks and that rests the part of our brain that was trying to do the work. So for example, one of the consequences of writing this book has been that i've started to learn toplay the drums, which is a totally new skill set. And really, i find it so enjoyable and so fun in a guaranteed way to slip immediately into flow. If you can get yourself to turn away from your computer and just practise the drums for five minutes, during the time i might otherwise have spent reading the news or looking at my email in box, i end up coming back much more

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