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If anyone can post references to better studies I would be grateful.
The basketball study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119836/
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Relaxation isn't a theory, it's a way of life. When you step outside of the insane and stressful mentality of having to kill yourself to make a good living in life then your life will improve immensely. There should be no reason at all for you to not take it easy for at least ten minutes a day.
First you talk about relaxation as a way of life and then you say that 10 minutes a day is all you need? Am I missing something?
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Relaxation isn't a theory, it's a way of life. When you step outside of the insane and stressful mentality of having to kill yourself to make a good living in life then your life will improve immensely. There should be no reason at all for you to not take it easy for at least ten minutes a day.
First you talk about relaxation as a way of life and then you say that 10 minutes a day is all you need? Am I missing something?
Having said that what I struggle with most is how to do all this grind stuff without which we can't survive and still have time to think and reflect on our vision/growth/etc. So then that's where weekends come in. I tend to rest up and then by Sunday afternoon I feel energized enough to really think about our business.
People are always talking about how it's possible to run a start-up while working normal hours. And perhaps that's true when you have a team with real roles. But in the very early stages it's very hard to get by on stress-free hours.
Is it fair to repost a comment from the original article? That's what I've done here: Who exactly do you think you are talking to? I work in a call center and had a meeting where if we didn't work more efficiently and faster we would be determined "burnt out" and let go. We're temps so the ax is over our heads at all times anyway and it only pays $12 an hour. Vacation, what a laugh. If you had been talking to say dec…
This message is very well known and understood. The interesting question is 'why do foolish managers continue to treat their employers in poor ways that are known to decrease productivity?' In terms of productivity, it's a total lose-lose situation. I'm 37, and I'm pretty sure that I have worked out the answer. Most corporations are run by people (the managerial class) who are more interested in power than results. T…
This NY Times article was posted here a few months back and touches on the same idea: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-tra...
Article can be summarized in this line: "A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health."