When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

by Daniel H. Pink

Is your own hidden daily pattern peak-trough-rebound? Or is it rebound-trough-peak? Then look for synchrony.

I think I'm peak trough rebound

The most powerful lunch breaks have two key ingredients—autonomy and detachment. Autonomy—exercising some control over what you do, how you do it, when you do it, and whom you do it with—is critical for high performance, especially on complex tasks.

Looks like the daily walks outside I've taken most days since working from home due to pandemic has been a great thing for me, which I knew and now I really know!

Detachment—both psychological and physical—is also critical. Staying focused on work during lunch, or even using one’s phone for social media, can intensify fatigue, according to multiple studies, but shifting one’s focus away from the office has the opposite effect.

The ideal naps—those that combine effectiveness with efficiency—are far shorter, usually between ten and twenty minutes.

Hmmm still never tried this

Imagine if schools suffered the same problems wrought by early start times—stunted learning and worsening health—but the cause was an airborne virus that was infecting classrooms. Parents would march to the schoolhouse to demand action and quarantine their children at home until the problem was solved. Every school district would snap into action. Now imagine if we could eradicate that virus and protect all those students with an already-known, reasonably priced, simply administered vaccine. The change would have already happened. Four out of five American school districts—more than 11,000—wouldn’t be ignoring the evidence and manufacturing excuses. Doing so would be morally repellent and politically untenable. Parents, teachers, and entire communities wouldn’t stand for it. The school start time issue isn’t

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, I don't have anything more to say... Covid

As time passes, make sure all participants have a voice, that expectations are clear, and that all members can contribute.

Of the four ways that endings influence our behavior, encoding is the one that should make us most wary.

When time is constrained and limited, as it is in act three, we attune to the now. We pursue different goals—emotional satisfaction, an appreciation for life, a sense of meaning.