Ashani Dante
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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Your system actually anticipates that it's going to come as well, which makes it easier.
The second strategy that I love suggesting is spending time in environments that hold our interest without demanding much from us.
And the simplest example of that is being in nature.
And that might mean being in nature without headphones.
Terrifying concept.
I go everywhere with my headphones, but sometimes I will challenge myself to take them off.
It might mean, you know, puttering about in the garden.
And that's what we call attention restoration.
So basically, that's allowing ourselves time for the attention to triumph.
People will often say that bored time is when they're most creative.
That's when some of the most incredible ideas come to us.
And that's where creative rest comes from in that framework that I mentioned, because your brain actually needs exposure to beauty, to awe, to nature and unstructured wondering that has nothing to do with productivity.
And the last one that I want to suggest here, it's almost
It's almost insultingly simple.
And it is that if we don't schedule rest, it won't happen.
And so there is an element of protecting time for rest in the way that you would schedule a work meeting in.
And I sometimes call it grace space.
I might call it a self-date.
Whatever the language is that works for you to tell you, this is my time for me.
Me, one of my best friends has the term me first than everyone else.
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