Your Brain at Work: More Brain Breaks

This post comes from Laura Ricci, who has a neat blog about Winning Ideas at work. Here's an excerpt from a post on May 5, 2006:

Burnout is a biologic reality, not a psychological weakness.

The brain works by creating pathways for specific projects. Communication is passed between cells along these synaptic pathways by electrical charges. The gap between cells has a conducting property. Think of it as a gel that holds a charge, similar to a battery.

Synaptic pathways wear out. When the synaptic pathway is fired continuously, like your last proposal, the gel loses its charge after awhile. Communication slows. By the time you notice a slowdown, burnout has already occurred.

The gel will re-charge, but it takes a day or several, and the pathway must be closed to most traffic.

Laura recommends taking plenty of time at lunch, eating well, even a 20 minute nap.

Gosh this is the 3rd post recently about taking breaks; do we see a theme here? When is my next vacation? Oh yes, June 2. Gotta go take a break now.

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