- Positive affect (attitude) tends to rise in the morning, drop in the afternoon, then return in the evening
- We are more rational in the morning
- Timing can have a notable affect on math, analytics, and rational work
- Insight thinking is best during suboptimal times
- Larks, owls, third birds
- Fall/Winter births tend to be larks
- Synchrony effect seeks to align type, task, and time
- Determine your chronotype
- Determine the activity type
- Determine when you should do the work
- “Vigilance Breaks” are short breaks taken before high-stake activities to make sure every one and every thing is primed and ready
- Take a 20-30 minute “Restorative Break” every few hours
- Frequent short breaks can recharge us
- Lunch with autonomy and detachment is important
- Napping boosts mental capacity, more boost the older you get
- Best naps are 10-20 minutes
- Learn to pause like a pro
- Start right, start again, start together
- Slow moving “When” problems can be just as bad as fast moving “What” problems
- When a competition starts, judges have a baseline assumption; as the competition progresses, they adjust their expectations
- Midpoints can put us into a slump or spark us
- Midlife has less of a crisis and more of a slump from mid-thirties to mid-fifties
- Virtue signaling is most important at the beginning and end
- “Punctuated equilibrium” is the natural, human inclination to start slow, transition to heads down suddenly (always halfway between the start and deadline)
- Thinking we are trailing by a little tends to motivate us better than almost anything
- Interim goals help overcome slumps
- Stopping work in the middle, when there is a clear starting point, helps prevent stagnation
- We start editing towards the end of our setting
- Give bad news first
- Poignancy mixes a little sad with happy which is more enjoyable overall
- Codes, garb, and touch
- Synchronicity binds us to each other
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