Scott Young is a learning expert who has started a deep dive on energy management. The neglected sibling of time management.
🙋🏻♂️ I’ve written about energy management before. I came across the term. in a corporate wellbeing session.
The basic idea is that we tend to focus a lot on time management – how we allocate the hours in a given day, the days in a given week etc.
But the perfect schedule (if such a thing exists) isn’t much use if we don’t have the mental and physical energy to follow through with it. A plan for a productive Tuesday becomes less achievable if I don’t sleep Monday night.
In self-care terms this mostly ends up coming back to things we all have been told are important but we may or may not be addressing: sleep, nutrition, physical activity, social connection, stress management.
They’re the biological and psychological equivalents of getting your car serviced regularly so that it operates efficiently and sustainably in everyday life.
So what does this have to do with Scott Young, and who the hell is Scott Young?
Scott appears on my recommended reading list because he writes about learning. He’s someone who has digested much more of the learning research than I have, used that knowledge to create and document his own impressive learning efforts, and tries to explain it to others through his newsletter and programs.
Because of the learning-centric nature of his content, I think he is a great person for the average higher education student to follow.
AND! he just launched a series on energy management.
There are three posts at the time of writing this one:
Efforts to study energy in the context of learning and productivity have had a tough road.
Energy is the missing key in understanding why we struggle to stick to our schedules.
Good in the short-term, problematic if chronic.
With more in the pipeline.
To get notified on when those articles come out, sign up to his newsletter – https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/newsletter/
Yeah, I know that email newsletters are quite old fashioned nowadays, but I personally prefer the long-form interaction they enable.
That being said, if you are ’email is poop’, Scott has all the social media channels in play. Visit his site and pick your poison preference.
Whilst you are there, browse his content. See what you think.
This time around I found his free e-books, which I plan on consuming soon – https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/subscription-complete/
Alrighty, I’m going to get back to my day, which at the time of writing is heading up to 42 degrees. Ridiculous.
