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On the whole, I agree with you, but sometimes there are actually issues and that's why we get sick, when the body response is out of wack or lacking. Sometimes

On the whole, I agree with you, but sometimes there are actually issues and that's why we get sick, when the body response is out of wack or lacking. Sometimes it's less about being tired and more about something which causes you to be tired, like being stuck in an unwanted situation. But yes, our work environment are full of dogmatic rules and preconceptions which are hard to break.

jwells89 3y ago
On a similar note, something I've observed is that the feeling of tiredness in the afternoon doesn't necessarily correlate with how much I've done in the hours prior. Recently I started doing more things in the morning hours, with the hope that I'd be more effective at those tasks (especially the more mentally taxing ones) earlier in the day than when I had been doing them previously, which was typically in the afternoon or evening. Intuitively, this would lead to better productivity in the earlier half of the day at the cost of reducing it in the latter half. Instead, my afternoon and evening energy levels remained unchanged or even improved a bit, meaning that I now get more done with no apparent cost. This is of course welcome but it was quite unexpected, and suggests that some amount of the "tired" feeling is more a result of conditioning than energy expenditure.
- mattgreenrocks 3y ago
  Most of my afternoon fatigue comes down to eating too much or too many carbs at lunch. There's an amount that is just right...and beyond that, I definitely start down-shifting. (YMMV, of course!)
- FieryTransition 3y ago
  Yeah, it's quite interesting how energy works, AFAIK we still don't know if task fatigue is really a thing or not. But if it isn't, doing more in the morning would not leave you more tired than usual, assuming you get regular good sleep. The body can be affected by so many things, and it's different for people what affects them. What you eat in the morning, sunlight exposure and consistent bedtimes is what worked best for me. I get an afternoon slump no matter what I do, but that is usually remedied by some physical exercise or breathing exercises I've found, and the longer I go without taking naps, the more my natural rhythm gets used to not sleeping at that point. But I've had periods with extra stress where I just need to take naps, but that is just something I've accepted and enjoy now when it happens.

jwells89 3y ago

On a similar note, something I've observed is that the feeling of tiredness in the afternoon doesn't necessarily correlate with how much I've done in the hours prior. Recently I started doing more things in the morning hours, with the hope that I'd be more effective at those tasks (especially the more mentally taxing ones) earlier in the day than when I had been doing them previously, which was typically in the afternoon or evening. Intuitively, this would lead to better productivity in the earlier half of the day at the cost of reducing it in the latter half. Instead, my afternoon and evening energy levels remained unchanged or even improved a bit, meaning that I now get more done with no apparent cost. This is of course welcome but it was quite unexpected, and suggests that some amount of the "tired" feeling is more a result of conditioning than energy expenditure.

mattgreenrocks 3y ago
Most of my afternoon fatigue comes down to eating too much or too many carbs at lunch. There's an amount that is just right...and beyond that, I definitely start down-shifting. (YMMV, of course!)
FieryTransition 3y ago
Yeah, it's quite interesting how energy works, AFAIK we still don't know if task fatigue is really a thing or not. But if it isn't, doing more in the morning would not leave you more tired than usual, assuming you get regular good sleep. The body can be affected by so many things, and it's different for people what affects them. What you eat in the morning, sunlight exposure and consistent bedtimes is what worked best for me. I get an afternoon slump no matter what I do, but that is usually remedied by some physical exercise or breathing exercises I've found, and the longer I go without taking naps, the more my natural rhythm gets used to not sleeping at that point. But I've had periods with extra stress where I just need to take naps, but that is just something I've accepted and enjoy now when it happens.