Hello and

welcome back to the practicing human podcast

the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra,

and since this is a Sunday episode it's going to be very short and I'm

going to share a quick mindful problem solving nap More to say about that in a moment.

First, let's settle in as we always do with the sound of the bells. And Okay, so the mindful problem solving nap, aka the mindful creativity nap.

There's a lot going on here, especially in the context of napping and mindfulness.

We've done a lot of episodes on the distinction between sleep and meditation.

So how do these two intersect? Well, as I was working on my book,

there was many, many, many, many, many hours of writing,

many days in a row, weeks in a row, months in a row, ultimately years in a row.

I'd wake up very early.

For a good eight months I was waking up around like 3.34 a.m. I had right for four hours, take a break,

right for another four hours, take a break, right for another four hours, take a break, right for another four hours, take a break,

then right again until the evening.

Kind of put my life aside and just went into writing.

And as you can imagine, you need breaks from that other than like the breakfast, lunch, dinner breaks.

It's hard, especially for me, I'm a slow writer and it's just very tedious and difficult to stay at

tune for that long a period of time and as I'm writing what would happen is different things would come up,

struggles with how to articulate something, or figuring out how do I want to frame a paragraph,

or what's the thesis here, the central theme or what's the

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