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How To Bounce Back From A Break
Breaks are necessary
One cannot go on doing work or working on a hobby forever. Every once in a while, a break is needed.
If you don’t take a break, then Life will give you one.
Key elements of my long hiatus from writing here.
Idea muscle burnt out.
Going blank every time you look at the horrifying blank page happens to us all… and also is completely fine.
The muscle between your ears can only take in so much computing. Burnout is inevitable. It will come and pass. In the world of constant consumption, info-overload, and infinite responsibilities, the best one can do is notice burnout from far away.
It helps reduce the effect of burnout on the idea-generation side of the brain. But noticing it only makes us aware of ourselves being in burnout.
Here is how you can get off the carpet.
Target a streamlined system over results.
A system is what keeps the work in the pipeline going where it is supposed to go.
I decided to streamline the entire process of writing by changing 1% of it. Instead of writing bits and pieces of one blog post, I wrote a whole draft. I didn't mind typos…
