Day Twenty - Recovery
“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” Miles Davis
Today’s challenge is to find the secret to perfect timing.
We all have our own unique biological clocks and our brain and mood function differently over the course of a day. Largely society falls into three main categories and this makes a difference to how you might plan your day.
Are you a lark, an owl, or a third bird? How about the people you work with? What are the implications for your team's dynamics?
People tend to move through the day in three stages: a peak (best for analytic work), a trough (best for administrative work), and a recovery (best for insight work). In your own job, what are two or three core tasks that you should handle in each stage?
So how might you understand your chronotype preferences? I recently completed the Horne-Ostberg Morning-Eveningness Questionnaire, which took me five minutes. Not unsurprisingly I found that have a morning bias and hence my best days start with a dawn walk or swim at the beach. Did you try the survey and where you surprised by the results?
Further information
Read - When. The scientific secrets of good timing. Daniel H Pink 2018
Read discussion guide Daniel H Pink
Listen - Podcast daniel-pinks-when-shows-the-importance-of-timing-throughout-life
