Brain Performance Improvement – Will your brain work better if you know how to use it properly? We will find out in this article.
The culture and values of working in our Thai society tend to emphasize hard work. If you work hard, you will advance. If you work hard, you will become a skilled person. Many companies have always recognized and rewarded employees who have shown hard work and fast work in their work.
Employees can increase their self-importance by trying to stay busy, and over time, they become addicted to that sense of importance, to the point where they can’t sit down and watch their favorite TV shows even on their days off.
“They are willing to do it longer and harder.”
Many articles, books and podcasts have talked about successful people being willing to work harder and longer than others, even if it means waking up at 4am or working until midnight. In fact, research has shown that the more sleep people get, the happier they are. This means that while they are working hard all the time, they may be adding to their pain, stress and fatigue. Of course, what they are missing is their own happiness.
This is something that many people who work hard to achieve success often overlook. Your brain will work better and more efficiently when you have more downtime. Here are some techniques that will help you get into high-performance mode and be even more productive.
Brain Performance Improvement – Your brain will perform better in the following ways:
1. Create a 15% buffer.
In manufacturing there is a trade-off between capacity and production capability. The truth that every employee and every company must understand is that no company can operate at 100% capacity. Therefore, 85% is considered to be the optimum capacity, leaving 15% for potential failure, whether it is equipment malfunction or other reasons.
“Your brain doesn’t want to work 100% either.”
It is not only the company’s requirement but also your body and mind need to work at 85% capacity to be effective and mentally prepared. A 9-time gold medalist in the 100-meter dash, he was always the last one in the first 40 meters but always overtook his competitors near the finish line and won. What we can clearly see is that other runners had to push harder towards the end but this runner won with the same 85% capacity from the beginning to the finish line.
“Formula 8 – 1.2”
A simple way that you can do this every day is to cut 1.2 hours out of your 8-hour work week, or 1 working day out of the 7 days per week. Start by using the time to read, relax, do things you enjoy. While you are doing this, you may feel uncomfortable, go against your instincts, or force yourself at first, but this method will help you buy back your brain power in the long run.
2. Look at your body, not your watch.
Have you ever noticed that over time, your patience in a meeting or work conversation is getting shorter? This feeling is fickle, but it can become very annoying when you run out of energy to talk and your willpower is running out of control. If you have this symptom, know that this is not the time to make important decisions or engage in conversations that require reason or logic.
“The time when the brain is most efficient is in the morning.”
Brainwave studies have shown that inspiration, creativity and intuition only occur when our brains are primed, so the more you protect that brain space, the better. The brain is most productive in the morning, so big decisions and important tasks should be made in the morning. Repetitive or routine tasks should be left for the afternoon, when you will be less aware.
“Take good care of your precious time.”
Now that you know your morning time is most valuable, when you have to make an important decision or negotiate something that requires a lot of brainstorming, put those tasks in the morning. And to make your morning more productive, plan out two or three things you want to do the next morning. Avoid checking unnecessary messages or notifications that aren’t related to your plan until you’ve done everything you planned.
3. Talk within 25 minutes.
Who says work doesn’t need meetings? Good teams need meetings because when everyone is free to work, they are working within the right boundaries and processes. Decisions and steps are made correctly according to the plan laid out in the meeting.
“The default length of most meetings is = 60 minutes.”
The main problem that most people don’t like meetings is that we tend to set the meeting time automatically, and 60 minutes is the most popular time. This means that at least 35 minutes of your work time is wasted waiting for latecomers, troubleshooting technical issues, setting up slides to present, setting up the projector, opening information, or answering questions like “What’s on the agenda for this meeting?”
“Turn your meeting time into 25 minutes.”
The ideal time is 25 minutes. This time creates clarity on what’s important, focuses on what really needs to be done, and forces us to think about the top two or three things that are important enough to discuss in the meeting automatically. In addition to making your meeting time 25 minutes, you should always state the purpose of the meeting clearly when you send or accept the invitation. And if you don’t think the meeting is necessary or not on your agenda, save the other person’s time by politely declining.
4. Simplify your systems and processes.
It is human nature to add things to a problem, whether useful or not, to make it more complicated rather than subtracting things to make it easier to solve. When your daily or weekly schedule is so tight that you can’t move, you choose to wake up earlier or sleep later to get things done when you could be reducing the number of things you have to do each day or week.
“To-do list”
When it comes to work, you should set boundaries on what you’re working on. The easiest way to organize yourself is when you look at your to-do list for the day or week and add another list to it called a to-do list. List the things that are unnecessary, unimportant, or can be postponed to another week to free up your already-busy schedule for relaxation.
Conclusion
We are all taught to be hard workers since we were kids because we all have this belief about hard work leading to success. Teachers always praise hardworking kids, dads always praise hardworking kids, and moms never stop complaining when they just lay there and don’t get out of bed.
All of this is not wrong if we devote ourselves and work hard at the right place, time and as everyone knows, successful people usually have hard work as a quality and often tell about the hardships along the way to reach the finish line. But the real cheat code that will make us not reach the finish line with exhaustion is that we must know the word “take a break along the way”.
If we do and can systematically divide the rest time from the beginning, we will not have to squeezing energy, gasping for breath, or recovering after crossing the finish line. We can even look for the next finish line. Therefore, if you want to be a successful person in terms of work, body and mind, you have to know how to let your body rest.
“If you want to be successful and adapt well to situations, stop pushing yourself to the limit and beat yourself by taking more time off.”
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