The author laura van dercam said that if you don't take a real break, your brain will take a fake one. Trying to power through is inefficient, and staring at your screen is not a break. We also know about breaks, the importance of full detachment. If we take more breaks than we take breaks that are social, outside, moving and detached, this is a way to arrest some of the decline a performance.
#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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