Saturday 15 July 2017

How to be extremely productive without getting extremely exhausted

Posted by speedygeoff on Saturday, July 15, 2017 with
"The reality is that stepping away and shifting your focus, whether that’s physical workload or mental workload, allows your brain and your body to take a slight step back and to get away from always pushing the edge."

Article at
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/health/article/2017/07/11/how-be-extremely-productive-without-getting-extremely-exhausted

"Most people think to get better at anything — whether that’s athletics or intellectual learning or whatever — you just need to work really hard. And what that equation demonstrates is the need for balance. Not only do I have to do really hard, deliberate work, but I don’t get growth or adaptation or learning unless I have the other part of it, which is rest, recovery, stepping back and allowing that work to absorb so that I can improve on whatever it is I’m doing."

We train so that we can run fast when we need to?