#94: THE WORKAHOLIC SOLUTION

THE WORKAHOLIC SOLUTION
Being insanely busy all the time is not only bad for you;
it also prevent you from discovering the human being you were meant to be. 
–Andrew Smart

EPISODE #94
In this episode we will be covering:

How slowing down can help you make meaning out of experience and ultimately help make you more productive, maximizing your impact, influence and legacy 
7 ways to break your workaholic tendencies 
The latest personal growth tool I stumbled upon and you deserve to know about!

INSPIRED BY….

My babymoon relaxation weekend in Myrtle Beach

THE WORKAHOLIC SOLUTION

Autopilot, by Andrew Smart

Quotes from Smart:

Our long-standing “idlephobia” has lead inexorably to our current near-obsession with busyness.
In the short term, busyness destroys creativity, self-knowledge, emotional well-being, your ability to be social – and it can damage your cardiovascular health.
True insight, whether artistic or scientific, emotional or social, can really only occur in these all-too-rare idle states.
Allowing the brain to rest opens the system to exploiting these mechanisms of nonlinearity and randomness, and amplifies the brain’s natural tendency to combine percepts and memories into new concepts.
Doing nothing actually makes your brain function better.
Western society has instilled in us a belief that every moment of every day must be filled with activity. Indeed, it is almost a moral obligation in the US to be as busy as possible. I will try to show that for certain things the brain like to do you may need to be doing very little.
Modern technology can literally make us dumber.
On the contrary, when you leave important parts of your brain unattended by relaxing in the grass on a sunny afternoon, the parts of your brain in the default mode network become more organized and engaged.
If you knew being idle (preferably whi