You should know how to rest

Kutarev Egor
2 min readMar 3, 2021

What would you have done in your free time if you hadn’t got neither smartphone nor a computer?

We spend a plenty of hours trying to focus on our jobs. We rather go to the courses in order to improve their concentration even slightly, but will not make an attempt to look into ourselves. The problem is in the “poor quality” leisure.

“Those who work hard, play hard

So, to be more productive to succeed in performing our job we should be able to take a qualitative and useful rest. Speaking of rest, I don’t mean hanging all evening in the smartphone and scrolling an endless news feed. Of course, I am not suggesting refusing from all the joys of the modern world. Also, it is important to acknowledge that there is no bad in drawing or reading, as a hobby, for example. It is some kind of anti-stress therapy. It often seems to us that we are not ready to spend the evening on reading a book as it is laborious. In fact, the time we are scrolling the feed is much bigger than the time we are reading.

How can you resist the tempting option of spending an evening on Twitter? The answer is simple — you need to make the alternatives less visible. To do all of this, you don’t have to completely revise your schedule. Here are four easy steps for making alternatives less visible:

  • choose an activity that you would…

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