I know there is this whole thing in our culture that you’re supposed to be working all the time, under stress, pushing against the limits. There’s a kind of calvinist strain that says “no pain no gain.”<\/p>\n
But I find that I am most productive and most creative when I find some nice relaxing place, with good light, pleasant music and very calm surroundings. I get myself a nice cup of coffee or cappuccino, lots of space to work, and just let stuff happen.<\/p>\n
It is amazing how much more productive I am when I set things up properly to reward my mind and body, rather than punish my mind and body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know there is this whole thing in our culture that you’re supposed to be working all the time, under stress, pushing against the limits. There’s a kind of calvinist strain that says “no pain no gain.” But I find that I am most productive and most creative when I find some nice relaxing place, … Continue reading “Relaxation and productivity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23061,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060\/revisions\/23061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}