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You can kiss goodbye to your quality of life if you "work from bed". As Matthew Walker, of "Why We Sleep"[+], reminds: you want your brain to associate your be
by kashyapc 6y ago
You can kiss goodbye to your quality of life if you "work from bed". As Matthew Walker, of "Why We Sleep"[+], reminds: you want your brain to associate your bed with sleeping.
A related point is that if you're not feeling sleepy, don't lay around in the bed waiting for sleep (go to a different area of the room, if possible)—just as how we don't (?) sit around at the dinner table waiting for hunger to arrive.
[+] With warts and all, like any book. Don't let the so-called "egregious errors" pointed out by some guy online distract from the main points made in the book.
- phreack 6y agoGoing a bit further, if at all possible, my tip from many years of remote work is don't even have a computer in the room you sleep in. It's amazing how much the brain correlates rooms with tasks, and if you work in your bedroom you will have a worse quality of sleep.
- kashyapc 6y agoGoing to a different room may not be possible for everyone. We have to consider those who live in studio apartments and other kinds of smaller places. But your broader point stands—a decent enough separation between bed and work is critical. And take advantage of human nature: we're creatures of habit; build solid routines for compounding benefits.
- phreack 6y agoYes, it's definitely a luxury for many. I did find that setting up a dividing screen (made of basically hanging cloth) tricked my brain into believing a particular kind of one-room apartment was two, which helped a lot with keeping focus.