There’s a particular kind of lack of self alignment that leads to even feeling like some time is “dead”, so I want to push back against that but also give you some answers.
The deal is that the seemingly dead time is time you need in order to function. Not all of us have the same bodies capable of the same things: there’ll basically always be someone more productive than you and someone lazier than you to compare yourself against. But what we can say is that there’s a variety of kinds of rest bodies need to do things not only like repair of organs but also for healthy upkeep. Your brain, for example, needs time to do things like memory consolidation, and that can’t happen if you’re spending the time cramming new information in.
That said, we can find lots of activities that don’t ask a lot of our bodies and especially of our brains. Simple chores, watching videos, listening to “boring” stories, playing video games, the list goes on.
Not every moment of everyday needs to be productive because not every moment of the day can be productive: one only need be responsible up to one’s physical limits, and beyond that the priority is recovery rather than production. “Dead” time is better framed as time actively recovering to do more stuff later.
There’s a particular kind of lack of self alignment that leads to even feeling like some time is “dead”, so I want to push back against that but also give you some answers.
The deal is that the seemingly dead time is time you need in order to function. Not all of us have the same bodies capable of the same things: there’ll basically always be someone more productive than you and someone lazier than you to compare yourself against. But what we can say is that there’s a variety of kinds of rest bodies need to do things not only like repair of organs but also for healthy upkeep. Your brain, for example, needs time to do things like memory consolidation, and that can’t happen if you’re spending the time cramming new information in.
That said, we can find lots of activities that don’t ask a lot of our bodies and especially of our brains. Simple chores, watching videos, listening to “boring” stories, playing video games, the list goes on.
Not every moment of everyday needs to be productive because not every moment of the day can be productive: one only need be responsible up to one’s physical limits, and beyond that the priority is recovery rather than production. “Dead” time is better framed as time actively recovering to do more stuff later.
Odd to hear rest time as time for rest. (This isn’t sarcasm, I just kinda… ignored that part for a long time).
Thank you