Ask HN: Mental Warm Ups to Start the Day
Usually when you exercise, you start off stretching and doing warmups before your actual workout. What do you guys do to warm up your mind at the start of a workday or coding session?
Usually when you exercise, you start off stretching and doing warmups before your actual workout. What do you guys do to warm up your mind at the start of a workday or coding session?
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Meditation is the best thing for this. I also like to use a heart monitor to measure my HRV when meditating - it gives me an idea of my physical & mental performance today compared to my baseline.
A physical workout can also be good. Lifting weights (consistently!) makes a difference long term in my mental performance, but the biggest difference for me is going for a run. The runner's high is real, once you get to a place where you're comfortable with the distance you're doing.
There's scientific research that keeping a journal has a positive effect on your mood. Especially if you explicitly try to write about gratitude.
I do as many pushups as I can in one go, and solve my speedcube a few times. Gets the blood flowing and the brain working.
Work out(physically).
This is important to everyone.