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Pause Your Feedback Loops

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Even if you are pursuing maximum productivity, you will ultimately achieve more if you know how to rest well. You get an opportunity to reflect on your life from a distance. The bad. It's possible to end up too far on the other side and become unproductive. Note: this skill is in some sense very natural and easy, but tends to be unlearned by those who pursue high productivity. So if your life is in general successful and under control, it's quite likely that you've forgotten how to rest. You do some activities that don't have a clear goal. Being goal-oriented is good advice most of the time, but also forces your mind to rely on strong and persistent feedback loops. This is simply because humans have not evolved for sustainable, intensely goal-oriented activities. In order to pursue them, you need to keep your body and mind in a state of constant crisis (to some degree). A popular way to relieve this burden is to have some leisure activity, or "hobby". In particular, a well chosen hobby

Pause Your Feedback Loops back to: Be Well Tuned Skill Pause Your Feedback Loops What do you get out of it? The good. Your mind and body can finally get some high-quality rest. It's not enough to dedicate time to resting, if you can't also reach the corresponding mind state. Even if you are pursuing maximum productivity, you will ultimately achieve more if you know how to rest well. You get an opportunity to reflect on your life from a distance. Big decisions are hard to make when you are constantly forced to react to all the issues and anxieties that keep coming up. The bad. It's possible to

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