Relearn Faster and Retain Longer: Along With Practice, Sleep Makes Perfect
Sleeping between learning sessions reduces the amount of practice needed by 50%, and ensures better long-term retention.
Research Paper
To Detach or Not to Detach? Two Experimental Studies on the Affective Consequences of Detaching From Work During Non-work Time
Studies demonstrate that detachment from work as well as positive thinking improves subsequent affect, highlighting the causality underlying the association between psychological detachment from work – as a core recovery experience
Disruption of day-to-night changes in circadian gene expression with chronic tendinopathy
Improving circadian rhythm may help with recovery from tendon injury
Time spent in outdoor light is associated with mood, sleep, and circadian rhythm-related outcomes: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in over 400,000 UK Biobank participants
Research shows that for every extra hour spent outdoors, you’re more likely to be happier, and to lower the likelihood of depression and antidepressant use.
“Give me a break!” A systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of micro-breaks for increasing well-being and performance
Micro-breaks have a statistically significant effect on vigour and fatigue
Acute aerobic exercise: an intervention for the selective visual attention and reading comprehension of low-income adolescents
Exercise improves your attention and comprehension abilities.
Work, recovery activities, and individual well-being: A diary study
Work related activities during leisure time have a negative impact on situational well-being.
How nature nurtures: Amygdala activity decreases as the result of a one-hour walk in nature
Going for a walk in nature can help prevent against mental strain and potentially disease.
Stumbling out of the Gate: The energy‐based implications of morning routine disruption
Disrupting your morning routine leads to higher levels of depletion and reduced calmness and work engagement.
Waking up on the right or wrong side of bed.
Studies show that your morning mood can stay with you throughout the day.
A person who turns up to work in a “good” mood, can be more than 10% more productive throughout their work day than those in a “bad” mood.