{"id":1533,"date":"2014-06-22T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2014\/06\/22\/busy-is-an-addiction\/"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:47:00","slug":"busy-is-an-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/busy-is-an-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy is an Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>V\u00eda @rands&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/busy-is-an-addiction\/\">Busy is an Addiction \u2013 Rands in Repose<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Part of your hormonal reward is based on the fact the thing you just built has never been built before. \u2026<br \/>The situation arises: you enjoy the highs, but you are unable to create enough new to support these highs, so you trick your brain into rewarding you for doing far less \u2013 you convince your brain of the dubious value of being busy.<br \/>\u2026<br \/>\u2026Has anything blown up in the last six hours? No texts and no urgent emails. A quick scan of news sites shows me what the planet currently cares about and then I head into my cave after making a pot of coffee. Another deeper email scan to deal with the first round of mails that need attention followed by a glance at my calendar \u2013 the day is full. Nine meetings, blocked out for lunch\u2026<br \/>After decades of following this protocol, I\u2019m certain of what I\u2019m doing \u2013 I\u2019m building mental momentum. I\u2019m convincing my brain through a constant firehose of content of one thing: <i>We are going to be super busy today \u2013 it\u2019s going to be awesome. How about a hit of the good stuff?<\/i> Now, I can rationalize this morning preparation as gathering context and mentally preparing for the day but what I\u2019m really doing is overclocking my brain. This is why I\u2019m drinking coffee. I want to make sure by the time I hit the office, I\u2019m working at 112%, I\u2019m walking fast in the hallways of the office with a smile on my face, I am ready to fully crush this day.<br \/><b>What I am really describing is a chemical addiction to the endorphins produced by my body that are supposed to reward productivity, but I have figured out how to force their creation via my advanced state of busy.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00eda @rands&nbsp;Busy is an Addiction \u2013 Rands in Repose Part of your hormonal reward is based on the fact the thing you just built has never been built before. \u2026The situation arises: you enjoy the highs, but you are unable to create enough new to support these highs, so you trick your brain into rewarding  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,26,29,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eficiencia","category-el-critico-como-artista","category-gestion","category-psicologia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}