{"id":3005,"date":"2019-11-21T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2019-11-02T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:08:13","slug":"back-up-for-a-running-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/11\/back-up-for-a-running-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Up for a Running Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resting, i.e., goofing off, is often a necessary zero-th step in concentrated work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago, a baseball player was asked about his team bad first week of the season. Is answer was something like, &#8220;We were backing up so we could have a running start.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can (1) work all day at a mediocre level of effort and concentration. I can (2) work most of the day at a high level of concentration and productivity. I cannot (3) work all day at a high level of concentration and productivity. Try as I might, number (3) just doesn&#8217;t happen any more. It probably never happened in my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have to back up before running full speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such &#8220;backing up&#8221; looks like different things to different persons. To most, it looks like I am &#8220;goofing off.&#8221; (Why do we use all these phrases that end with prepositions?) Sometimes it even looks remarkably like taking a nap at my desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such rest precedes concentrated work resulting in high-quality products. I wish I could do (3) above. I have searched for years for the magic formula that yields it. Sorry. Haven&#8217;t found it yet. I guess I will settle for (2). Time to back up and rest before the next run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Resting, i.e., goofing off, is often a necessary zero-th step in concentrated work. Many years ago, a baseball player was asked about his team bad first week of the season. Is answer was something like, &#8220;We were backing up so we could have a running start.&#8221; I can (1) work all day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,67],"tags":[291,187],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rest","category-work","tag-rest","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}