Be Fatigueless
#70: practical tricks to avoid fatigue throughout the day while performing in full potential.
Keep your energy and interest in your work throughout the day.
Trick your brain by feeding changes to it through the senses. Make (trick) it to feel effortless even though a high amount of effort is exerted.
Change positions/posture
Each body position fires up certain neurons in the brain. The position of the body or posture influences the mind’s state—aka mood.
Eg: a relaxed posture creates calmness in the mind. Standing creates a sense of (sort of) urgency. Some postures stimulate focus.
Regardless of the posture, a change in it triggers a change in the brain.
Change your posture every 25 minutes (approx) to tell the mind that you’re not stuck somewhere with something that you don’t like.
Change place/environment
A change in environment opens some boxes in your brain and closes others corresponding to the place you’re in.
The Doorway Effect: you forget something when you move to the next room by passing through a doorway, and immediately remember it when you come back to the former room.
This is a psychological effect that causes the brain to adapt to changes by eliminating the previous set of feelings and setting up new ones for the new environment.
Use this effect to trick your brain into forgetting the stress created by the previous set of works.
Physical Effort vs. Mental Effort
to reduce the stress of physical effort - change positions.
to reduce the stress of mental effort - change places.
Effort vs Experience
How you experience (feeling easy or hard) is different than how much effort actually you put in.
Focus on making your work feel easy rather than choosing the easy work.