Lunch break alone at a picnic table behind the store is thirty minutes where nobody’s your boss, not even your phone.

A break is only a break if something actually stops. Half an hour behind the store with nobody needing anything from you is genuinely rare, and a phone will eat it quietly and leave you feeling like you never sat down at all. The difference between resting and simply refuelling the same tiredness is usually whether anything got switched off.

On your next shift, take ten of those minutes with the phone left in your pocket. Eat, look at something far away, do nothing in particular. See whether the rest of the shift feels any different.