Bless up from your feet to your head top.
We go again,
I am, still am part of the sentiment that I can work till I drop. What I am not part of is I can rest when I’m dead. There’s too much studies out there that prove how foul that can be on your system and lack of sleep can cause seizures ulcers and haemorrhaging. Not a cute way to go out, all for this capitalist sentiment.
My people are no longer slaves, being a workhorse for the western workforce doesn’t sit right with me. Economic empowerment is one of these, to disparage rest is a totally different thing.
What I want to speak on is the way we are active despite physical movement. I think, everyday much like every human, my thoughts are spent on ideas to make me better at my craft and problem solving. I want to start a dialogue on how active being sedentary can be.
As we all know the greatest sportsmen rest and spend millions on their bodies to run at their best when the time comes. Where we falter in our understanding is using your mind can expend just as much energy even when sedentary. We can confuse the two, think they’re mutually exclusive mostly because we are thinking (we think all day) and problem solving.
In the creative field more than anywhere else the mind games and use of our minds can entrap us in a world of self destruction and leave us in the tundra of work ethic.
There’s a difference between sedentary and stationary, being which sedentary is lack of physical movement but speaks none to the about movement of the mind and its inner-workings, stationary in this sense is lack of either.
We must dispose of the understanding that sedentary means we are doing nothing and rest is only a healing apparatus, and being sedentary can also be in parity with activity. Mental activity.
The construct of the past couple of days have been rest, rest is an assurance that energy can be regenerated and health preserved. It’s not easy to not think about rest and be about total hassle mentality, no rest no sleep just work.
The thing for me is rest is a part of work. Working on your craft is one thing, working on energy preservation is an ideal that is not totally disseminated. Energy restoration to me is a big part of my work efforts to replenish the energy expended so the course of action can’t continue which now plays a big role in the work I do.
Energy as a part of the complex mixture that concocts everyone’s life. Find an hour to replenish my own was in-part finding a pursuit of mine that Needed little to no energy but still part of the overall discourse that allows me to be better off.
At first I practised a method I called procrastination where I would practice other disciplines of design be that interior architecture or fine and industrial design. This procrastination worked well as it expanded my worldview and I learned more.
There comes a point in practice where you must practise the craft else efforts feel wasted emotionally no matter how much they’re not.
Today a professional level skill set is what it is. You must learn to adapt, skills aren’t special, their use value to you is special. Today my energy restoration consists of writing and reading, both expanding and learning the outlets but considerably more central to the foundational knowledge and less about skill as information is out there yet a considerable amount of it is all a part of a daily communication practise.
Therein part no energy is wasted as time is put to better use understanding better ways to communicate ideas and fulfil daily KPI’s no matter the amount of reading or writing done.
Energy Preservation techniques actively work in favour of the “workaholic”. No sedentary moment feels stationary active sedentary moments is a part of the restoration of my energy reservoir.
Thinking about it like this allows me to feel time is not wasted as whether I’m meditating or thinking or reading and writing I am doing more to rest my mind just as an athlete takes time to rest their muscles. In the professional world studying a meaningful text is akin to pondering a mathematical equation.
Without the expenditure of enormous amounts of energy, no one needs you to have read a whole book as it isn’t expected. What’s more expected is learning concepts that aid in higher development. So reading a page of a good book is worth more in a week or a month than reading the whole book because the meaning of the book isn’t in the wheelhouse of use.
Remember use value is important, information you can’t use is like a heavy dumbbell you can’t lift, more often than not it is taking space in your mind and occupying space that could be of good use and because your brain is a tool of use it will find any means to get the information out including losing it.
Now you’re left with the memory of a book you don’t completely understand. It becomes ‘a book I read one time said something like…’ for unfortunately what you were reading had no parts.
Taking time to read meaningful bites of data or information that could expand your view learning in small amounts at a professional level gives you more time to digest information and place it in a useful space in your lexicon of thought. Doing the former leaves you with weight of no value, much like a trinket that is only useful as a paper weight or a door stopper.
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