Sunday, September 27, 2026

🌿 Wellness

The Fifteen-Minute Nap Is Legitimate

A short afternoon rest is not treated as a failure of stamina in France. It is brief, it is not discussed as productivity optimisation, and it happens after lunch rather than instead of it.

Take a fifteen-minute rest after lunch on a day off, lying down, with a timer. Longer is worse, not better.

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