Relax! You’ll Be More Productive

[Beliavsky]

<p>[Relax! You’ll Be More Productive
By TONY SCHWARTZ
New York Times
February 9, 2013](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html&lt;/a&gt;)

A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health.</p>

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<p>Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity. Professor K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues at Florida State University have studied elite performers, including musicians, athletes, actors and chess players. In each of these fields, Dr. Ericsson found that the best performers typically practice in uninterrupted sessions that last no more than 90 minutes.

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[gouf78]

<p>As an avid long time “power napper” (as in: Give me just 15-20 min and I’ll return bright-eyed and bushy-tailed!), I’m just going to agree. It’s a mind/body reset for me. But “relax”? not really–just better time management between brain and body. Guess body “reboot” is a good word.
I think it’'s more a matter of extreme focus on the task at hand which all those professions have oodles of need. I tend to “procrastinate” about some work projects but honestly I spend more time mulling over how I want to accomplish something in the best way possible before I start and then take very little actual time accomplishing those tasks once started. The “homework” has already been done. It’s total focus on the work once I start on the project.</p>