Chapter 50 You can be a cat basking in the sun

The most famous psychoanalyst in Britain, Hydefield, said: "Most of the fatigue we feel is due to psychological effects. In fact, there are very few fatigues caused purely by physiology." Therefore, I often tell everyone that you Most of the fatigue you feel is caused by mental and emotional factors.The well-known psychoanalyst Dr. Brill said in more detail, he said: "If a sitting worker is in good health, 100% of his fatigue is affected by psychological factors, that is, emotional factors." So, what should you do when you encounter this kind of mental fatigue?To relax!Relax!Relax again!Learn to maintain a "normal" mind at work.James said in his article entitled "On Relaxing the Emotions": "Excessive nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, and tense and painful expressions in the United States are a bad habit, a bad habit indeed." Tension is a habit , Relaxation is also a habit, and bad habits should be eliminated, and good habits should be cultivated.

You can relax at any time and anywhere, just don't make an effort to relax yourself.The so-called relaxation is to eliminate all tension and strength, and only think of comfort and relaxation.At the beginning, think about how to relax your eye muscles and face muscles, and keep saying: "Relax... relax... relax, relax again." Let yourself go from the muscles of the face to the center of the body, There is no nervous feeling at all like a child. The female writer Vicky Bem once said that when she was a child, she met an old man who taught her the most important lesson in her life.She had just fallen, broke her knee, and sprained her wrist. The old man who was a clown in the circus helped her up and said to her: "The reason why you fall is because you don't know how to do it." Relax yourself to protect yourself, come, let me teach you."

The old man taught Vicky Bem how to run and how to jump until she learned it all. You have to remember that you can relax anytime and anywhere. The famous soprano Ye Li often uses such a method: before the performance, she sits on a large chair and keeps saying to herself: "Relax, keep relaxing, and relax again." This method is very effective, which can make her Spirited and full of confidence. John D. Rockefeller holds two amazing records for owning the most wealth in the world and living to be 98 years old.What's his secret to doing both? It's very simple, one is heredity, their family lives long for generations, and the other reason is that he takes a half-hour nap in the office at noon every day.He was lying on the big sofa in the office, and even if it was a call from the President of the United States, he would not answer it.

If you can't afford to take a nap, then you have to rest for an hour before dinner, which is at least more valuable than a glass of wine, and, if you count the snobbish, how many times more effective than a glass of wine, you think, in Sleeping for an hour around five or six o'clock in the afternoon means that you have at least one more hour of time that can be fully utilized every day. This hour plus the 6 hours of sleep at night is much more effective than your continuous sleep of 8 hours. This is the famous 6+1>8 law. During World War II, Churchill was already sixty or seventy years old when he was in power in Britain.However, he was able to work 16 hours a day and insisted on commanding British operations for several years.Where is his secret?

He works in bed until 11 o'clock every morning, reads reports, issues orders, makes phone calls, and even holds important meetings in bed. After lunch, he goes to bed for an hour-long nap.And before dinner at 8 o'clock, he has to go to bed and sleep for two hours. He doesn't need to relieve fatigue at all, because there is no fatigue at all.It is precisely because of this intermittent and frequent rest that he has enough energy to work until late at night. For purely physical workers, the more breaks they take, the more work they can do each day. Francis Bailey, scientific administrator at Bedham Steel, has proved it.

Workers, he observed, could each load about 12 tons of steel a day, but usually they were exhausted by noon.He made some careful adjustments to the causes of fatigue, and came to a conclusion: each worker should not only send 12 tons of steel per day, but 46 tons of steel, and he would not feel tired at all. He conducted an experiment and asked a gentleman named Gamden to work according to the time stipulated by Bailey. He stood aside with a watch and instructed Gamden: "Now take a piece of steel...go over... ...now take a break...now go...take a rest..." The result is astonishing. Others can only load 12 tons of steel per day, but Gamden can transport 46 tons per day.And according to Francis Bailey, the method could be improved.

Gamden's labor has remained at the same level during his years at Bedham.The reason he can do it is because he can rest before he gets tired. He works about 26 minutes per hour and rests for 34 minutes.He worked fewer hours than he took off, yet he was almost four times as productive as the other workers. When someone interviewed the first lady of the White House, Irina Roosevelt, she was asked how she handled the tightly packed event schedule. She just said that every time she received a large group of people or wanted Before delivering an important speech, I usually sit on the sofa and close my eyes for half an hour.

Edison, the king of invention, believed that his endless energy was due to his habit of sleeping whenever and wherever he wanted.Henry Ford, the American car king, also knew how to relax. On his 80th birthday, he was quite proud to reveal to others: "You see, I am so energetic and healthy, because I have followed this law all my life. One rule: I never stand when I can sit down, and I never sit when I can lie down." Jack Charnak, one of the most famous directors in Hollywood, has also used this method of self-relaxation, and it has achieved miraculous results. When he was the manager of the short film department of MGM, he often felt tired and exhausted. In order to change this situation, he tried everything, drinking mineral water, eating nutritious meals, taking vitamins and other bitter medicines.But it didn’t help. Later, I suggested that he learn to be a cat basking in the sun, go on a “vacation” by himself every day, and make full use of all the time to rest, such as lying down and resting when he has a meeting with his subordinates in the office.

Half a year later, Jack made a special trip to praise this excellent method again and again. He said: "It's a miracle. Every time I used to talk about short film production with my subordinates, I always sat stiffly on the chair, and my whole body was highly nervous. Now I’m lying on the big couch in meetings and I feel better than I’ve had in decades, and I’m able to work an extra two hours a day without getting tired.” Here are some tips for you to relax: Work in as comfortable a position as possible, remembering that physical tension creates neck pain and mental fatigue. Read more similar books on self-relaxation, such as "Destroying Nervous Tension" by Dr. Huck Finney Roberts. At the same time, I also recommend that you read "Why You Are Tired" by Daniel Hosey.

Relax yourself at any time, look in the sun, take a nap, watch the cat, or keep an old sock on the table next to you to remind yourself how relaxed you should be.