Ask HN: Do you do any mental exercise before work?
It is well known that musicians or athletes do warm up exercises to prepare themselves for a performance. Is it common to perform any mental exercises to boost up your productivity? What's your routine to get into the best shape of mind possible? No. But I'd love to hear ideas. I sometimes struggle trying to get focused and get my productivity moving, once I do I am good, but on the days I struggle it would be awesome if I could find a way to get my focus faster. Right now, I will sometimes just walk away, go do something else and come back, other times I blow time reading hackernews etc. My wife keeps telling me to go for a bike ride or run and that will help, I should probably try those too. I read the NYTimes over breakfast each morning. I'm a big believe in reading something else before your first actual reading task. Whether you are a student going in for the SATs or just someone going to work, if you make the first thing you read something for fun as a brain warmup, yes. I like to get in a relaxed state before work - sometimes I'll build Legos, sometimes I'll play video games, or even just read some random source code I'm interested in Japanese workers are known for exercising before work to focus Exercising how? Physically? Mentally? They go for a run around the factory, as if they were about to play a soccer match