Manolis Kellis

It's introspection.

It's almost watching yourself from above.

And it's basically just becoming yourself, becoming comfortable with the freedom that you have when you're by yourself.

So I sympathize completely and I have felt alone and I have felt that feeling.

And what I would say to you is stand up, stretch your arms, just like become your own self, just like realize that you have this freedom.

and breathe in, walk around the room, take a few steps in the room, just like get a feeling for the 3D version of yourself.

Because very often we're kind of stuck to a screen and that's very limiting and that sort of gets us in particular mindset, but activating your muscles, activating your body, activating your full self is one way that you can kind of get out of it.

And that is exercising your freedom, reclaiming your physical space.

And one of the things that I do is I have something that I call me time, which is if I've been really good all day, I got up in the morning, I got the kids to school, I made them breakfast, I sort of hit the gym.

I had a series of really productive meetings.

I reward myself with this me time.

And that feeling of sort of when you're overstretched to realize that that's normal and you just wanna just let go, that feeling of exercising your freedom, exercising your me time,

that's where you free yourself from all stress.

You basically say, it's not a need to anymore.

It's a want to.

And as soon as I click that me time, all of the stress goes away and I just bike home early and I get to my work office at home and I feel complete freedom.

But guess what I do with that complete freedom?

I just don't go off and drift and do boring things.

I basically now say, okay,

this is just for me.