Too tired to exercise? Drained by social interactions? Need your phone to relax? Exploring seven of the misconceptions we have around what energizes and drains us.
The Relaxation Paradox: Why Zoning Out Doesn’t Always Restore Your Energy
Some scientific findings on the best way to recover your energy after a hard day’s work.
How to Make Hard Work Feel Easy
Lately, I’ve been writing about improving energy. Recent essays include why we should manage energy rather than time, the saga of ego depletion research, and the paradoxical relationship between stress and energy. Today I want to talk about effort. Why do some tasks feel harder than others? And how can we make the hard work […]
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