How resting more can boost your and your team’s productivity

Create a work culture that prioritizes restorative downtime

Originally published on JOTFORM.COM

I’m going to tell you something about productivity that most top-ranking Medium authors and famous startup gurus won’t.

It isn’t a hack that you’ll read in the latest Lifehacker headline or see among the top #lifehacks Tweets.

Instead, it’s a technique that, when integrated into your company culture, will lead to record productivity.

It is this: Rest.

Researcher and Silicon Valley consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang literally wrote the book on the importance of balancing work with rest — Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.

In it, he explains that in order for work to work, there also must be rest:

“Rest is not this optional leftover activity.

Work and rest are actually partners. They are like different parts of a wave. You can’t have the high without the low.

The better you are at resting, the better you will be at working.”