The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature
Spending as little as 30 minutes in nature can improve your short term memory by as much as 20%, reduce mental fatigue and improve focus.
Research Paper
Minimum Time Dose in Nature to Positively Impact the Mental Health of College-Aged Students, and How to Measure It: A Scoping Review
Spending as little as 10 minutes in a green or nature-filled setting reduced the effects of physical and mental stress.
Short and long-term health consequences of sleep disruption
Optimising recovery from work can restore energy and mental resources, which in turn could decrease the development of sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.
The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness
Where sleep is restricted for more than four days, effects will be evident across a range of cognitive abilities, including working memory, attention, language skills and communication.
Recovery, work engagement, and proactive behaviour
Individuals who feel that they sufficiently recover during leisure time experience a higher level of work engagement during the subsequent work day.
This high level of work engagement in turn helps them in taking initiative and pursuing learning goals.
Should entrepreneurs plan or just storm the castle? A meta-analysis on contextual factors impacting the business planning–performance relationship in small firms
The findings of this study determine a positive relationship between business planning and performance.
Routinization, free cognitive resources and creativity: The role of individual and contextual contingencies
By creating and sticking to a routine, cognitive resources aren’t wasted on small decisions, etc
Planning helps free up cognitive resources, which in turn helps identify priorities.
Recovery during Lunch Breaks: Testing Long-Term Relations with Energy Levels at Work
Recovering from work stress can restore energy and mental resources and decrease the development of fatigue, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.
Are formal planners more likely to achieve new venture viability? A counterfactual model and analysis
Planning tends to up the chance of business success by between 10% and 15%.
Plans help generate agreement, surface assumptions, ensure things aren’t missed, and highlight potential dangers.
Multitasking: Switching costs
Studies consistently show that multitasking is inefficient.
Shifting between tasks can cost you up to 40% of productive time.