2018-01-25
22 分钟So pretty safe bet that at some point in your life, you are going to face burnout.
It could be from work, it could be personal, it could be political, societal, but it's going to weigh on you.
And there's a really interesting relationship between, in my mind, between burnout and solitude and how they dance with each other.
And it's something that I dance with on a regular basis.
I move between those two states, and I wanted to kind of just share a recent experience with both of them with you in today's riff.
Along with that in our science update, some really interesting new research on screen time, happiness and, oh, those teenage years.
But it's equally relevant to us grown ups.
There's a remarkable threshold where screen time starts to make a really big incremental difference in your happiness.
So that's where we're going today on Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So today, today, as I sit here and record this, it is a rainy day in New York City in the middle of winter.
It's unseasonably warm outside.
So what did I decide to do?
I woke up.
I did my morning meditation.
And then instead of heading over to the gym today or instead of diving into work, I grabbed an umbrella.
I put on my winter boots, not because I needed them, but because they're the only thing that are waterproof.
I threw on my jacket and grabbed an umbrella, and I went outside where it was ranging between light to pretty heavy rain.
It's completely overcast and gray, but the temperature is really unseasonably warm.
And I don't know about you, but there's something in me that is wired for rainy days, not on a persistent basis, that kind of destroys me, but the occasional really gray rainy day does something kind of magical to me.
And I found that it's a blend of, I don't know, atmosphere.