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Relying on my ears to keep my posture |
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:date: 2020-03-25T05:48Z |
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:category: blog |
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:tags: physical-health |
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:url: blog/relying-on-my-ears-to-keep-my-posture/ |
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:save_as: blog/relying-on-my-ears-to-keep-my-posture/index.html |
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:status: published |
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:author: Gergely Polonkai |
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**TL;DR**: my ears helped me create an almost perfect pomodoro timer out of my own body. |
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There’s an ongoing pandemic for a few weeks now, so whoever can should and does stay at home. |
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Luckily we can do it at Benchmark.games, as we only used our office to stay in physical contact |
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with each other because we are (somewhat) social creatures. But now we try to take care of each |
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other and even the bravest work from home now. I hope the last one who left the office turned off |
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the heating and the lights. |
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I’m also lucky because i have both a supporting family and a separate room in our house which we |
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didn’t really use until today. It’s so separate that its door opens to our front yard, not inside |
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the house. There is/was a lot of junk there, waiting to be sorted or to be thrown out, so i took |
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a day off and tidied it up a bit so i could put a table and a chair inside. I also did some |
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cabling work and now it has Internet connection, too. It’s not overly comfy, but it will do for |
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the few weeks/months this pandemic will (hopefully) take. I also found a lot of treasures i won’t |
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list here, except a set of 5.1 speakers. |
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After setting up my workstation i put the speakers around me. They are not ideally far from me |
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(the room is not big enough for that) but it will suffice. The front centre speaker is above my |
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head so the speakers and my head form an almost perfect tetrahedron. The back speakers are also |
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at the same distance behind me. I have a bad habit of leaning closer to the screen when i overly |
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focus on something, and with this setup i just realised that whenever i do it i get outside of the |
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centre zone of the speakers and music doesn’t *sound* right. This way i instantly stop leaning |
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closer to the screen and fix my posture. Also, since the front centre speaker is above me, if my |
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back starts to get tired and i start to stoop, my head gets lower, and once again the music |
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doesn’t sound right. I try to take mental notes whenever this happens and i realised that after |
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an hour it happens more often, signalling that i should take a break. |
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During my breaks i drink some water, visit the toilet, do some exercises, have launch, or whatever |
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fits me, but most importantly, i try not to think of my current work task (unless i was in the |
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middle of focused work, which is rare after around an hour). This helps me clear my mind so in |
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the next hour i can focus better on my next task. |
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