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Why is it important to waste time?
Allows Your Brain to Rest One very good reason wasting time can make you more productive is that it lets your brain rest. When you’re constantly working you never get a chance to switch off. Wasting time doing something that requires very little complex thinking can make you more productive.
What creativity does to your brain?
A creative act such as crafting can help focus the mind, and has even been compared to meditation due to its calming effects on the brain and body. Even just gardening or sewing releases dopamine, a natural anti-depressant. Creativity reduces anxiety, depression, and stress… And it can also help you process trauma.
How does fear affect creativity?
We are afraid to make a mistake. We’re afraid of not being perfect. We’re afraid of looking stupid and being laughed at or being rejected. Fear of expressing our innate creativity as a thinking tool is counterproductive and often leaves us unable to think clearly and deeply at all.
Is creativity the residue of time wasted?
“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” Albert Einstein. It’s summer, time for relaxing by the pool, laying at the beach, taking a vacation from work, spending time outdoors, with family and friends, reading junky novels and just doing nothing, if you feel like it.
Can wasting time make you more productive?
One very good reason wasting time can make you more productive is that it lets your brain rest. When you’re constantly working you never get a chance to switch off. Wasting time doing something that requires very little complex thinking can make you more productive. Your mind gets to, “take a vacation”, so to speak, and do something fun.
Do You Feel Your Day has been wasted?
If you feel your day has been wasted, then it probably was. You are not making the most of your time each day. Here’s what you can do from now on to stop wasting time:
What is the biggest waste of time in life?
The biggest time waste is not having any kind of plan for the day or week. When we don’t have a plan for the day, we just drift through the day reacting to anything that comes our way and not making any progress towards our goals or purpose.