Cal Newport explains why scrolling your phone when tired backfires. It feels restful but actually depletes your energy and makes it harder to focus when you return to work. Real rest requires actual downtime, not passive screen consumption.
I don't do social media.
Stare at your phone. Yeah, yeah. When you're tired.
I don't, I don't stare at my phone when I'm tired because those activities, even though they feel restful, they actually aren't that restful.
It's interesting because sometimes when I'm tired and I want to break, I'll take my phone out and go into I guess the involuntary attention which feels like it's, it's less fatigue because I'm being fed a movie or content that is just allowing me to like not think about the task I was just doing.
Yeah, but.
You'Re saying that that's not a good thing.
It may not be because it may be kind of taking you out of what you're doing before but it might not actually be a restful behavior. So when you actually try to go back and do the thing you might actually have less energy, less directed attention.
You're still tired.
Than you had with.
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