Down Time

Breaks

During free time, instead of mindlessly doing whatever you see first, ask yourself what you want to do during your free time
If you give your mind something meaningful to do during all your waking hours, you will feel more fulfilled, and spend the next day more relaxed in comparison to web surfing
If you want to eliminate the use of addicting entertainment, give your brain a health alternative to continue training your concentration

At the end of the day after doing deep work, we can “shut down” all consideration of work-related issues until the next day.

Down Time Helps Us:

Utilize our unconscious mind
- Useful for more open-ended problem solving
Recharges the energy needed to work deeply
- Sleeping, relaxing activities like walking outdoors
Optimally use our time
- People can only spend 1-4 hours in intense concentration, and concentration levels diminish past that To Promote Down-Time:
Establish a shut-down routine
Mitigate the work-related ties during shut down time
Delegate uncompleted tasks to the future
- Unresolved issues tend to linger in our minds and deplete willpower without us noticing, however, this can be solved by simply planning when we will work on it next

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