Top performers find ways to make their rest periods deeper than everyone else. If you have long spaces between meals, your blood sugar levels can drop drastically and affect your performance.ĭeeper rest was another concept that was enlightening for me. Another practical ritual to implement based on this principle is snacking throughout the day. I have found it to be easier to stay focused. I have been using the Pomodoro method recently, but found that 25/5 minute split work/rest to be too short of a time to remain focused, and have been experimenting with an 80/10 or 90/10 split between work and rest.
One might say the purpose of a marathon is to push you beyond your limits, but most of us are not running marathons daily so we need to be more conscious of taking regular breaks to recover our depleted energy. They have expended all of their energy without resting and recovering. Essentially this is the same concept as when marathon runners “bonk”, completely running out of energy near the end of the race. The first concept is intermittent energy renewal, I guarantee you have experienced the consequences of poor energy renewal – low energy, lack of focus, procrastination, etc. Although not quite as profound as The Art of Learning, this book had a few really key insights for top performers that were very helpful to me in refining my daily rituals. I read this book after hearing about it from Josh Waitzkin in The Art of Learning, which I took notes on here. Tagline: Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance and personal renewal See Book Notes for other books I have read.
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