Dasavur
New Member
Hey everyone, I have been having these thoughts for quite a few weeks now about breaks and our productivity and so I thought I'd do a bit of research of my own. Here are two pages that have very good points that I found explained a lot of stuff that I kind of already knew but didn't quite understand and are overall a very good source to read for your every day life.
Often times I find myself slacking more and more as a raid goes on. Not only that but in several cases that I've witnessed, a raid has cut back on break time to get more in and slowly with more and more break time being cut the productivity of the time we have is also cut. Though the productivity is cut much more dramatically than the breaks and what do we often do to fix that? Take away more breaks! I mean, "Hey, if people don't take breaks than they won't get distracted during game time right...?"
I am posting this to suggest more breaks. Not only more breaks though, but to encourage everyone to actually get up from your computer and do something other than sit there and wait for the break to be over. I know I've caught myself doing this often. A break will start, we'll have 10 minutes, and I'll be sitting there watching the screen for 8 of those minutes waiting for the break to be over despite the fact that I'm the one that asked for the break in the first place. Get up, stretch, do some push-ups, do something that takes you physically, mentally, and emotionally away from the computer and the game. I've recently started doing push-ups and curls with small weights I have sitting in my room periodically throughout the raid because A) it helps with my stress levels (just like the sports player in one of these articles) and B) it takes me away from the computer, even if just for 30 seconds to a minute, it's a break nevertheless...
So here are the links; Link 1 (Which mainly talks about the stress levels, how they are created, and ways to reduce them), and Link 2 (This one mainly talks about the importance of taking breaks and gives some examples). If no one else reads these (which I recommend anyone who gets stressed about anything in life to take 5 min per link to read and reflect), I would at least like for the leaders of each raid to read them and consider what they say. It will give you insight in to what's happening in your raid and why it's happening. Who knows, after taking in some of these suggestions you may see a dramatic increase the in productivity in your raid.
Often times I find myself slacking more and more as a raid goes on. Not only that but in several cases that I've witnessed, a raid has cut back on break time to get more in and slowly with more and more break time being cut the productivity of the time we have is also cut. Though the productivity is cut much more dramatically than the breaks and what do we often do to fix that? Take away more breaks! I mean, "Hey, if people don't take breaks than they won't get distracted during game time right...?"
I am posting this to suggest more breaks. Not only more breaks though, but to encourage everyone to actually get up from your computer and do something other than sit there and wait for the break to be over. I know I've caught myself doing this often. A break will start, we'll have 10 minutes, and I'll be sitting there watching the screen for 8 of those minutes waiting for the break to be over despite the fact that I'm the one that asked for the break in the first place. Get up, stretch, do some push-ups, do something that takes you physically, mentally, and emotionally away from the computer and the game. I've recently started doing push-ups and curls with small weights I have sitting in my room periodically throughout the raid because A) it helps with my stress levels (just like the sports player in one of these articles) and B) it takes me away from the computer, even if just for 30 seconds to a minute, it's a break nevertheless...
So here are the links; Link 1 (Which mainly talks about the stress levels, how they are created, and ways to reduce them), and Link 2 (This one mainly talks about the importance of taking breaks and gives some examples). If no one else reads these (which I recommend anyone who gets stressed about anything in life to take 5 min per link to read and reflect), I would at least like for the leaders of each raid to read them and consider what they say. It will give you insight in to what's happening in your raid and why it's happening. Who knows, after taking in some of these suggestions you may see a dramatic increase the in productivity in your raid.