Take a Break, Part 2 - Take a Nap

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Imagine one day you’re going through your grandmother’s attic. Shifting through the boxes passed down for generations, you come upon a hand written letter by Albert Einstein. “My dear”, it states, “had I only known earlier the secret to thinking with such clarity and vigor, I would have seen e+mc2 much sooner!” Your heart races as you read further and further “where is it!?”, you ask yourself. “Where is the secret!?” If you knew the step Einstein developed for such intelligibility would you do it? Even if it seemed ‘silly’? But what if Einstein wasn’t the only one that practiced this ‘foolishness’. What if this practice was a daily habit of Aristotle, Salvador Dali, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Margaret Thatcher and even Winston Churchill.   What did these world shaping minds have in common in changing the world? Listen in. It’s a lot more “I can do that!” then you would think.

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0:00.0	Imagine your boss walking in and handing you an envelope.
0:04.7	Inside this envelope is a secret used by some of the world's most brilliant minds.
0:10.8	Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt,
0:17.7	and my personal favorite, Johannes Brahms.
0:22.3	Leaving you at your desk, you stare at the envelope with amazement.
0:26.9	I can't wait to see what this says, you say.
0:31.2	It'll be life-changing, I'm sure of it.
0:35.6	Taring the envelope apart, you retrieve a small piece of paper that says three simple words.
0:42.3	Take a nap.
0:46.3	What?
0:48.3	You say, looking around.
0:50.3	Take a nap?
0:51.3	Seriously, is this a joke? This has to be a joke.
0:56.2	You go through the envelope to look for something else, some other source of wisdom, and there's nothing else in the envelope.
1:06.3	I don't have time for this, you say in frustration. I have too much work to do.
1:12.2	I'm behind as it is.
1:15.6	How many times have you said to yourself,
1:19.1	if only I had more time, even just one more hour in the day, it would change everything?
1:25.6	I'm Chad Lawson, and let's comment down in three, two, one.
1:38.7	Time is a fixed value. Each day you are given 1,440 minutes, no more, no less, and regardless if it's
1:49.2	an approaching deadline, your holiday is about to end, or you're 30 seconds too late as the gate
1:55.6	door to your flight just closed. Time doesn't change. So if stretching the hours in the day is not an option,
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