Thought: recovery is more about restoring order than energy. What is truly exhausting is not energy expenditure but entropy increase. Structured expenditure of energy, like a run or gym session are actually restorative overall, and locally (muscles) quick recovery.
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Some good answers here. In keeping with my order/entropy point, some behaviors I personally find highly restorative are personal grooming behaviors: shave, clip fingernails, get a haircut. To a lesser extent, tidying up.
I value tidiness more than cleanliness (up to a point)
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For work stuff, I find some kinds of process reconciliation work restful and restorative. Liking catching up on logging hours, sending out invoices, filing away expense receipts.
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6 stages of recovery
1. Chill, eat, sleep
2. Basic triage ordering to get to minimum functional potential
3. Escapist leisure to more orderly places (TV/fiction)
4. Advanced order restoration, short of OCD
5. Energy reboot with exercise
6. Low-stakes creative work-play (poiesis)
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Why knowledge? Seems like all people have some version of this
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Feels like there’s actually 2 kinds of recovery style corresponding to kinds of performance style: imaginative/creative versus disciplined/skilled. The recovery behaviors of one are stressors for the other
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I started playing video games recently again for the first time in almost a decade.
I find it really stress reducing. I think because it gives a strong sense of control and mastery that it largely absent from most of my work.
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Mindfulness meditation = relaxed focus that gives you a power boost



