Focus on your ability to recover from stress rather than avoiding stress - ryan @context_ing

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A tweet thread on how to think about work, stress, and downtime aka recovery, in the context of being “creatively productive”.

Look for ABSENCE of recovery not PRESENCE of stress.

Q: How do we maximise potential over both the long & short term?

Working too little doesn’t produce results - wasting present potential for creation.
Working too hard burns you out - sacrificing future potential for creation.

—ryan @context_ing

Stress happens, so ensuring recovery really means knowing what you as an individual need to do to recover.

https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1149840169396293633?s=20

How do you monitor that you’re recovering well, and feel inspired and creative to take more things on again?

https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1149841243792240640

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Now the question is how do you encourage self care? How do you signal it’s ok to take a walk, to take break to meditate or exercise?

I always though Bonusl.y integrated with Apple Health kit would be great. Its been on my list of things to build for like two years!

Seems like theres a few adjacent tools out there:
https://flexbot.ai/

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Part of it has been talking about it a lot!

So, normalizing break taking AND understanding that sometimes you are creatively inspired and “sprint” for a period of time, or work / break at “odd” hours.

I think the lesson is making sure you understand what each individual needs to be in recovery mode.