Guide: Energy Research Fuckup - PankoAliaksandr/Knowledge-DataBase-Soft GitHub Wiki
Motivation
Key factors of overall performance:
- Energy
- Knowledge
- Resources
- For Knowledge see self-education guide
- For Resuorces see Networking and Capital guides
In this guide I describe the key factors influencing our energy. I found the next:
- Sleep hours and quality
- Days w/o sex
- Coffee
- Expectations from a day
- Sport
- Food
- Weather
However, the influence sometimes is not obvious:
- More sleep more energy (w\o exceptions, super significant)
- More days w\o sex more energy (w\o exceptions, super significant)
- With coffee you have more energy for the next 8h, then big drop and the next day the effect is worse; after a week with coffee the next 1-2 days without are really bad. Recommendation: use only for a special day as a secret weapon. (significant effect)
- Positive expectations add energy when negative significantly reduce it. (significant effect). Recommendation: you need to organize your day in a way to have something pleasant or at least every time exactly know how to start a day (do not have super difficult tasks)
- Sport (super significantly) effects but with a latency. Moreover, it depends on the intensivity (if too much you will fill lack of energy around 2 days). However, with sport your overall weekly energy are much higher. Recomendation: do sports but do not get too tired
- Food (significantly) effects the energy. The content acording to my research does not play significant role, however it is imoprtant how much you eat. Recomendation: eat whatever you think healthy is, but eat just less and more frequently.
- Weather (significantly) influence the energy in a way that sunny weather makes you a bit happier giving you more energy. Of cource it depends on how big exposure you have to a weather (ex. office VS outside). But you need to use this weather correctly: go ourside for a 30 min
- Rest during the work (super significant effect). Remember you MUST rest BEFORE you feel that you NEED a rest.
Research Fuckup
This project showed me how important to measure the data unbiased. I collected to data the in the end executed a multivariable linear regression. However, the results were obviously biased, since my internal understanding significantly differed from the results.
My mistakes:
- Wrong time of collecting the data (I did it in the morning -> sport, food observations were biased). Moreover, it does not reflect the whole day, but only the first several hours...
- Come up with the right scale: inifially I used 1-10 scoring. It was totally useless, since this system created the source of errors. Too many options. Bad, OK, Great - is almost everythime enough
- Sleep, Sex, Coffee and Sport all they influence more than just one single day, moreover the effect sometimes comes with latency. It was important to measure data without any breaks. I didn't manage this correctly.
In the end: the data and final regression were not reliable, but my actual observation let me know the answer anyway. Do research!
Some observations:
- You have much more energy without coffee (on the long run) do not dring it every day it is dead end activity
- Make sure you the quality of your sleep is good enough (quality is more important than number of hours)