Recovery requires accepting that inactivity can still serve an objective.

Rest only works if you can accept that doing nothing is doing something. As long as you are measuring recovery against output, it will feel like waste, and you will contaminate it with small tasks until it stops functioning. The inactivity is the mechanism, not the absence of one.

When you rest, rest fully rather than partially. No half-working. A properly empty hour restores more than four hours of hedging between the two.