Gemma Speck

Or if you were to come back, you know, the next day.

A 2022, I think, meta-analysis that looked at taking micro-breaks and micro-rests throughout the day actually found that this is one of the best things you can do for your wellbeing.

It's going to make you feel so much better, less fatigued, more vigorous.

Doing 30 minutes on of work, 10 minutes off, doing an hour on, 20 minutes off works so well for our brains because it gives us these micro doses of rest that it needs.

Your brain is calling, begging, asking you to give it a break.

It was not made to sit and stare at a screen for five hours.

It was not made to sit and look at an Excel spreadsheet for five hours or Canva for five hours.

If you rest,

you actually make yourself smarter in a very specific way.

And I think this is the important thing because half the reason we don't rest and we don't take breaks and whatever is because we, again, think we're gonna fall behind.

We think we're gonna get less done.

We think we're gonna be less efficient.

What I'm gonna say to you is that if you wanna be smarter almost immediately,

You have to counterintuitively rest more.

And that might sound like a lie, it might sound like a farce, might sound fake.

There is so much evidence to this.

It's like honestly ridiculous that people don't talk about it more.

This is the best example I can give.

Have you ever been stuck on a problem and then you go shower, you go walk, you know, do something unrelated and like the answer basically pops into your head.

That is a documented effect.