The Power of Full Engagement
Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Tony Schwartz · first published 2003
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It's been done, and math + running wins. Check out Tony Schwartz the Power of Full Engagement. In it he talks about how you can't just go go go at the thing you want to get good at, you have to take breaks and do completely unrelated things, like running. If you don't, you'll burn out.
on “Crosswords don’t make you clever” ↗…exercise thing lately. Just reading for the last several years. Best article, which led me to action, is this http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou... together with the book The Power of Full Engagement https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743226755/ref=as_li_tl?ie... And here are the guys I read regularly (on and off, actually): Scott Sonnon: http://www.rmaxinternational.com/flowcoach/ Pavel Tsatsouline:…
on “Ask HN: Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?” ↗Read a book called "The power of full engagement" by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr. Its a life-changing book.
on “Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?” ↗…right now, however I want to soon when the current routine becomes more comfortable. The article you mention is written by Tony Schwartz who I've mentioned in my post, and I can't recommend his book "The Power of Full Engagement" enough. The two main things I took away from it were the importance of renewal (I now break up my day with various activities, such as the gym, meals, or reading a book for 20 minutes) and relating tasks…
on “What are you doing to feel uncomfortable?” ↗…Ruiz (http://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Fre...) The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz (http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/006000...) The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
on “Ask HN: What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?” ↗I was surprised that was his answer to burnout. I read The Power of Full Engagement (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743226755) and it really helped frame the problem for me. Taking vacations is definitely going to be difficult for a founder, but you can build recovery into your daily schedule…
on “Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup” ↗The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr / Tony Schwartz is basically all about that: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_...
on “Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time” ↗…ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGhSOAtAyQ that sums up the key points. - The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg talks about habits, how they form and how you can understand and hack them. - The Power Of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz talks about managing different aspects of your life in order to have energy to do the things that are important to you. Hopefully the above may be of some use to you. They…
on “Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?” ↗Just started The Power of Full Engagement by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr. I believe it was recommended here a while ago. Starts off a bit weak, spending too much time almost trying to sell you the book it feels like, rather than getting down…
on “Ask HN: What book are you reading?” ↗Tony Schwartz talks about some of the things that seperates elite performers from the merely very good in his book The Power of Full Engagement (HBR article here: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2001/01/the-making-of-a-corpo... ) One of the points he makes is that the very elite (he studied tennis players particularly) have rituals that they perform…
on “The Tiger Woods Effect: Paralysis by Analysis” ↗As a matter of fact Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz authors of "Power of Full Engagement" say that the idea of self-discipline (in the form of strong-will) does not lie at the base of productivity. Indeed they say that human being do not have near enough energy to be self-disciplined in that…
on “Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology” ↗