From the course: Productivity Principles to Make Time for What’s Important

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Recharge by turning technology off earlier

Recharge by turning technology off earlier

- [Instructor] One of the things we talk about in the book is, the importance of building energy. And this is just a simple observation. If you want to focus on something everyday, if you want to have 60 to 90 minutes of time, where you're really focusing on something, you're in the zone, you're going to need energy, physical energy, mental energy. You got to have like a full battery to do that. We're all sort of basically the same kind of creature we were 200,000 years ago and we're in this modern world. Everything is totally different. We don't live in caves anymore, we don't live in the wild. We're in homes and we've got screens everywhere and so things are really out of whack. But if you want more energy, one simple change you can do, is to start dimming the lights and dimming your screens in the evening time and to not look at screens after say 8:00 p.m. And you can start actually turning down the lights in the…

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