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.
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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