4 Things to Do When Your Brain Is Tired
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4 Things to Do When Your Brain Is Tired
What helps you most when you feel your emotional resources are exhausted? What recharges your creativity?
Tara McMullin • What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
How to Rebuild Attention, Gently and Sustainably
Despite it all, the brain is wonderfully plastic. Plus, attention is a skill, and skills can be retrained. I’ve come to find that the key isn’t discipline, it’s design:
For the Moment:
(micro-wins for the distracted brain)
name the impulse. when you feel the urge to switch tasks or check your phone,
Refuel Your Brain Between Bursts
Jonathan Fields • Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
There is seven types of rest:
1-Physical Rest: naps, sleep, yoga, streching…
2-Sensory Rest: reducing the inputs that you take, dimming the lights etc…
3-Mental Rest: using methods like pomodoro to reduce mental overload
4-Emotional Rest: Talking to a terapist, journaling…
5-Creative Rest: crafting, writing, creating things in general…
6-Social Rest:
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