"The reality is that stepping away and shifting your focus, whether that’s physical workload or mental workload, allows your brain and your body to take a slight step back and to get away from always pushing the edge."
Article at
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/health/article/2017/07/11/how-be-extremely-productive-without-getting-extremely-exhausted
"Most people think to get better at anything — whether that’s athletics or intellectual learning or whatever — you just need to work really hard. And what that equation demonstrates is the need for balance. Not only do I have to do really hard, deliberate work, but I don’t get growth or adaptation or learning unless I have the other part of it, which is rest, recovery, stepping back and allowing that work to absorb so that I can improve on whatever it is I’m doing."
We train so that we can run fast when we need to?
Article at
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/health/article/2017/07/11/how-be-extremely-productive-without-getting-extremely-exhausted
"Most people think to get better at anything — whether that’s athletics or intellectual learning or whatever — you just need to work really hard. And what that equation demonstrates is the need for balance. Not only do I have to do really hard, deliberate work, but I don’t get growth or adaptation or learning unless I have the other part of it, which is rest, recovery, stepping back and allowing that work to absorb so that I can improve on whatever it is I’m doing."
We train so that we can run fast when we need to?
