When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
Interpretation
Focus on your work when it's time to work, and use your leisure time to relax and enjoy.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clear boundary between work and leisure. It suggests that to be productive and fulfilled, one should engage fully with their responsibilities during work hours, while also recognizing the necessity of restoring oneself through leisure activities that bring joy and relaxation.
In practice
In a team meeting, to encourage productivity, one might say this quote to remind colleagues to focus during work hours.
As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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