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عنوان نوشته این بود: سه دلیل برای توقف، تفکر و خوابیدن (three reasons to stop, think and sleep). بخشهایی از آن را در ادامه آورده‌ام. امیدوارم برای شما نیز آموزنده باشد.

Are you looking after your wellbeing? Richard Jolly shares why being mindful of three concepts could improve your work, and your life Why don’t we do the things we know we should be doing? It’s a question that Richard Jolly, Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School (LBS) asks executives daily.

“In our complex, technology-enabled lives, one of the hardest challenges is protecting our thinking time. Most executives are connected to their smartphones from the moment they wake up until they are lying in bed checking their emails at night. We need to regain our focus to succeed.”

Jolly calls for calm, mindful thinking time. To achieve that, consider three wellbeing concepts: stop, think and sleep.

۱. Stop
You’re busy. …
“There’s a great phrase in Florida: ‘When you’re fighting off the alligators, it’s hard to remember you were trying to drain the swamp.’ We have become a generation of alligator fighters, so busy ‘doing’ that we struggle to focus on our key priorities.”

Jolly blames, in part, technology and a psychological condition he calls ‘technological arousal’: the idea that technology drives people to distraction. For example, posting photos on Instagram creates emotional, cognitive, or physiological arousal, but it also takes time and energy that could be allocated elsewhere. “We need to change our relationship with technology, we’ve become obsessed and addicted to it, so we’re on edge, in a state of heightened technological awareness,”

He puts it differently. Based on 10 years of executive interviews, he found that 95% of people suffer from ‘hurry sickness‘.

۲. Think
The act of thinking is a lifestyle choice, and one that improves brain health.
When people are thinking, they often take their hands to their temples. It’s the place that generates people’s thoughts, feelings and movements. It’s also the home of ideas.
He suggests you carve out time to think. Not just in the shower, and not just for five minutes. “Figure out when you have your best ideas,” he says. “What time of the day is it? Is it before eating? Or after the gym? The time you have will only get more squeezed and the problems you need to solve will only get more complex, so you need to work out how to optimise your thinking time, now.”
Thinking time helps us survive, adapt and prosper. But no one can think without sleep.

۳. Sleep
What’s good for the body is good for the brain, too. “We all need a good night’s sleep. But it’s hard to achieve,” he says.
If sleep increases productivity and happiness, and supports smarter decisions, why are people still bragging about their terrible sleep habits? Because bad sleep supports the outdated idea that if you’re busy, you’re important.

Jolly calls for senior executives to be role models of behaviour. “People aren’t really listening to what you say, but they are mimicking your behaviours. Role models have an infectious passion for their work and live according to their true beliefs.”

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