Balancing inputs is crucial for people who do intellectual work

From [[Zettelkasten/Cards/Thinkers/Austin Kleon|Austin Kleon]]:

During a recent phone call, my friend Matt Thomas told me he likes to take a high/low approach to balancing his input, which started when he was in grad school reading dense theoretical texts by day and chasing them with movies like Fast Five at night. I’ve currently got a good combo going: I’m reading Middlemarch and binge-watching Bridgerton. (As the poet Donald Hall wrote in Essays After Eighty, everybody who works with their brains all day needs to lighten up a bit at night: “Before Yeats went to sleep every night he read an American Western. When Eliot was done with poetry and editing, he read a mystery book.”

This is also related to the [[Zettelkasten/Cards/Concepts/Second screen]] effect. The need to have “something on in the background” while working on something else.

This is also related to the [[Second screen]] effect. The need to have “something on in the background” while working on something else.

What if we just did the chill out activity?

What if I committed to watching an entire season of Love Island?

etc.