Would it be useful to examine what exactly “low energy” means?
I’m not jp, but:
too awake to sleep
too brain-fogged to do thinking work
possibly too brain-fogged to listen to a podcast and retain anything from it
too physically tired to go for a walk or do other similar low-intensity exercise, like easy yoga
probably too brain-fogged to read — and really digest — the web articles that I’ve been postponing for months because they seem great, but I can never get around to
Meanwhile, here’s what I can do in a low-energy state, some of the time (but I frequently don’t want to):
balance a checkbook, but it seems like I get roughly n hours/week of low-energy time, but maybe n/10 hours/week of time that I need to spend balancing checkbooks
delete e-mails, but not be able to think of a couple good new categories that I’d need to get my inbox to zero
get photos off my phone and file them appropriately, but possibly spend a little too long thinking of good, descriptive filenames that I’ll be able to use to search for them later, or just fail to have a name with the words that I’ll want to use to retrieve it later
I’m not jp, but:
too awake to sleep
too brain-fogged to do thinking work
possibly too brain-fogged to listen to a podcast and retain anything from it
too physically tired to go for a walk or do other similar low-intensity exercise, like easy yoga
probably too brain-fogged to read — and really digest — the web articles that I’ve been postponing for months because they seem great, but I can never get around to
Meanwhile, here’s what I can do in a low-energy state, some of the time (but I frequently don’t want to):
balance a checkbook, but it seems like I get roughly n hours/week of low-energy time, but maybe n/10 hours/week of time that I need to spend balancing checkbooks
delete e-mails, but not be able to think of a couple good new categories that I’d need to get my inbox to zero
get photos off my phone and file them appropriately, but possibly spend a little too long thinking of good, descriptive filenames that I’ll be able to use to search for them later, or just fail to have a name with the words that I’ll want to use to retrieve it later
I think you and the previous commenter would both do well to read the short, hyperlinked definition. (Sorry.)
Oh, that’s something significantly different from what I had in mind. Thanks for pointing me to the page that explains the concept.