5 Benefits That Make A Caffeine Break Worth It
The results of a 3-week self-experiment.
One week from the roughest exams of my life, I cut caffeine.
I’d considered quitting for a while. At this point, I was drinking up to six cups of coffee a day — without which I’d wither. I was dependent. I’d sleep on my desk if three hours went by without a hit.
With just over a week to go, I hadn’t studied for these exams. And when I saw how much work I had to get through, I panicked.
I started cramming, spending the first two days hopped up on a chain of coffees. I was wired. My heart pounded like a sledgehammer, my jaw clenched from tension, my mind was alert like a hunted rabbit. But I felt distractible. And I didn’t like the feeling, at all.
So on the third day, I quit. I went from six cups a day to zero. I spent the rest of the week studying, eating, drinking water, and sleeping — no stimulants. These were my observations.
1. You can hear yourself think
I was studying, so I was focused on thought and memory. I was attending to the way in which I was thinking, and without caffeine, it felt different.
The ‘thinking voice’ within was clearer and calmer. It wasn’t in such a rush. I could think…
