The last few days I got a tremendous amount of work done, and I figured I was on a roll. I made lists of next things to do, started to organize for the next big push, and generally geared up for a really productive weekend.<\/p>\n
And then something funny happened — funny but not totally surprising. My mind pushed back. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t turn today into a work day. Instead I found myself hanging out, reading the paper, doing the crossword, watching the occasional silly TV episode.<\/p>\n
Something in my mind was, it seems, forcing me to take a day off, to put in some down time, kick back, relax, whatever.<\/p>\n
At first it seemed a bit frustrating. “Hey,” I said to myself, “come on, we’re on a roll here. Just keep on moving, write that code, take that hill!”<\/p>\n
But it was not to be. And eventually I realized that there was a good reason for it all. There seems to be some sort of conservation law at work here — a kind of optimal balance between up time and down time. Unless I make room from time to time to just chill, I can’t approach the sort of work I’m doing with the right mind set.<\/p>\n
OK, glad we got that out of the way. Now it’s time to go back to my TV show…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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