Strong Work Ethic vs Personal Growth
Over the next few months we're running a series of Q&As and posting the answers here so everyone can benefit. Some of the topics are subject specific, others will be of interest to all. QUESTION 01: How can I triangulate and balance these 3 things: The desire to push myself to grow vs feeling guilty for resting vs becoming totally exhausted? ANSWER: When we train hard we work our system at every level and in particular our muscles. The next day we feel the work done by way of stiffness or soreness and have to take the time to stretch, nourish and replenish. We know if we overwork our muscles we do damage not only to our muscle tissue but to the attainment of our long term goals. This, in some small way, teaches us to play the long game. It’s playing the long game which gets us our best results. This is exactly the same with the brain. When we work the brain hard with continuous cognitive processing and output we are effectively working a muscle. However in menta...