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Don’t Poison Your Pleasures with Productivity Hacks
It’s okay to do things because you love them
We have never had more tools for stuffing additional tasks into a single day. We also have access to an unprecedented amount of data.
Business management self-improvement godfather Peter Drucker famously said,
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
There is almost nothing we can’t measure. But, somethings don’t need to be managed or measured.
The Power of Relaxation
We aren’t designed to work all of the time. We all need time to rest and relax from our work — even if you love your work.
Resting your mind and boy are essential. That doesn’t mean you have to spend all your downtime in a recliner napping. But, you do need to do something separate from your work so that you can exercise different parts of your brain while resting the areas you use every day for work.
Rest and relaxation make you better at your job.
But, there is a growing movement out of Silicon Valley to try and optimize our relaxation by quantifying every element of it.
