Learning to Relax

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You know how, when you go on vacation, it takes you almost an entire week to just unwind?
How that second week is so much better than the first one, and how you spend it actually having fun, instead of stressing about all those 47 things that might be going on at work?
Well, weekends are like that too, in short form.
If you don’t take the time to actually chill over the weekend, you’ll enter the next week with a bunch of pre-existing cognitive load.
Which’ll just cycle into greater stress over the week, which cycles into even greater cognitive load the following week, etc.
The bottom line — take the time off over the weekend. Don’t think about work. Try not to stress about that bug. Yes it’s not going anywhere, but then again, a clear mind will help immeasurably…
And yes, this only applies if you have agency. Then again, if you do have agency, make sure that your team does this too!

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