These being tired and fighting exhaustion with exercise threads must be a dread to read for anybody who works hard physically.
But I'm in the same privileged or at least not working physically position and I found most correlation with number of tasks I'm focusing on.
If there are too many things at once or none of them stands out, I'm more likely to feel tired.
If I'm focusing on a specific thing associated with specific action with no other things on my mind, it seems to be getting done effortlessly with high energy state.
I feel like for me that’s because progress in one direction implies lack of progress in other directions of concern. That’s scales with the number of things you’re trying to get done.
That’s why I think long running work streams with focus are so important. Context switching has cost beyond just the startup and tear down.
But I'm in the same privileged or at least not working physically position and I found most correlation with number of tasks I'm focusing on.
If there are too many things at once or none of them stands out, I'm more likely to feel tired.
If I'm focusing on a specific thing associated with specific action with no other things on my mind, it seems to be getting done effortlessly with high energy state.