{"id":4078,"date":"2019-11-07T06:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:05:37","slug":"rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reading Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The common pattern and learning were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People left their brains on autopilot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Some went for long walks.<\/li><li>Some started day with a cup of coffee, tea or music.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Some had lots of cigars&nbsp;<\/li><li>Others like Jung built their own house in the jungle where they would do their work at peace.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you develop this habit, a daily ritual the brain stops getting distracted. You get into your world where you are super productive. Cal Newport calls it Deep Work and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls it Flow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be productive, you have to stick to a daily routine and over some time, everything starts happening on its own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make use of this precious time of your life, you need to find your ritual and stick to it for a long period aka dispose of it to Type 2 brain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the time of reading the book, I created some rituals for myself. I am following some of it, while some will still take time to take on to autopilot. Our life is a continuously evolving journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ritual.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ritual.jpg 600w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ritual-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work. The common pattern and learning were: People left their brains on autopilot.&nbsp; Some went for long walks. Some started day with a cup of coffee, tea or music.&nbsp; Some had lots of cigars&nbsp; Others like Jung built their own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/rituals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rituals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}