Introduce Gaps in Stimulation
Deliberately include gaps between periods of intense focus or stimulation to support information processing, learning, memory consolidation, and idea generation. Examples include sleep, rest, naps, walks without looking at your phone, pausing after reading or watching something, thinking about material with eyes closed or during a walk, and inserting short no-rehearsal gaps during skill practice. Also framed as controlling the cadence of learning by avoiding overly dense, cluttered presentation and allowing spacing between items.
“"I actually have a theory which is that for those that are willing to introduce gaps in stimulation sleep we talk more about sleep rest walks where we not looking at our phones or just kind of not necessarily bored but that those gaps we know, we know with certainty are when the brain both processes information, stabilizes information that we've learned and comes up with new ideas."”