Either would be good to know. It's funny, my whole life I've wanted to garden, and for the last year or so I've been calling some of my cognitive habits "conceptual gardening" because that metaphorical soil seemed rich with interesting metaphors. Maybe I should, like, actually garden. I like this idea of practicing caring for things, and I naturally tend to cultivate people and ideas, so I wonder if I'll like gardening a lot. ...Honestly I feel pretty stupid for not thinking of this earlier.
(Will_Newsome: First ever human to go into a hypomanic episode simply due to considering the prospect of majoring in botany? Could be! "But Will, what about saving the universe, and justification, and being perfect, and FAI, and God, and all those things you've incessantly talked about for years now!" "No dude, trust me, it's all about looking very closely at plants.")
So, it's well-known (or, at least, oft-thought) that you can't just work 16 hours a day; if you want to get stuff done, you need to rest from time to time. You have to take breaks.
Today, just now, I realized that I don't really know what the best way to rest is. If I want to rest, should I do something that's fun and interesting, like reading a fantasy novel? Should I do something that's boring, like building roads in Minecraft, so that work will seem comparatively interesting when I get back? (And besides, reading a fantasy novel is a bit of a challenge, at least for me, whereas building roads in Minecraft is trivial.) Physical activity probably helps, but how much? Do relaxing activities, like taking a warm shower, help more than just sitting there? How can I tell when it's time to take a break? How can I tell when it's time to get back to work?
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