Physical Intelligence - Day 46
CityVP Manjit
Coming back late from a 3D IMAX feature last night did not end up as an exercise in relaxation, instead fully loaded with a movie that flashed and exploded with all sorts of special effects and action, I could not get relaxed enough to sleep and by the time I did it was another 5am sleep time, the very thing I have been focused on avoiding.
That led to a self-inflicted domino effect, because while I have the option to wake up late, that waking up late and expectation that I will have earlier nights simply squashed the days activity into a much shorter window and so I experienced running from one activity to another and then driving at speed to make time and create an unnecessary pressure by effectively compressing my day. When I consider that I had not originally intended to go the movie with he kids, the net result was an exercise in what physical intelligence should not be.
It was one thing dealing with pressure that others have imposed upon us, but probably far more par for course that the effects of pressure are the result of our own decisions and actions. For sure we can become physically intelligent about handling pressure :
Other TED Talks talk of making stress our friend - but no matter how much we befriend stress, the bigger lesson is not creating self-created time compression, especially when we are aware of what it is we need to do, and what interrupted that could have been handled more smartly.
Clearly these presenters have figured out what I have not because their very faces are far removed from what we look like in a haggard and stressed demeanor that is frazzled by poor sleep habits and compressed time.
Even this log is being completed on the right side of midnight, but midnight is midnight and I do believe that I read somewhere that there is a benefit to going to sleep before midnight and best by 10pm. For sure I am not going to watch 90 minutes "Mind after Midnight" no matter how interesting I have found the opening to be :
As I head towards midnight again, one thing I learned tonight is that Coldplay wrote a song called "Midnight", so since I have not heard that before, I dedicate this song to the comedy of errors which is the self-created domino effect of consequences that on any given wiser day would never have transpired :
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