Re:Breakthroughs Come From Relaxation
by donniezazen on Sunday July 29, 2012 @01:56AM
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Relaxation means to be free of stress. A couch potato can be on as much adrenaline as a hard working person. We only know a single state which is state of constant stimulus and excitation. Relaxation is a state of similar to meditation. You don't call Buddha a slacker; do you?
Order and Disorder. The most productive work comes from riding the border between the work you planned to do, and the spontaneous moments that draw you away. Stay glued to the work that you do, and you are likely to miss the big picture synthesis. Keep getting drawn away, and you'll have no base from which to explore.
One must put as little order as possible to reach their goal. Too much order and you are prematurely optimizing the solution. Too little order and you don't have enough discipline to get to the solution in the first place.
Balance the opposites of order and disorder.
Nice.
Much like fertile soil, the mind too needs to lie fallow.
FWIW, the "West Coast work environment" isn't all ping pong and video games either. It's ping pong and video games interspersed with very hard, intense sprints where products get built.