It’s in some people’s nature to need to grind and hustle whenever there’s a problem. They can’t take five minutes to breathe as long as something is unsolved. For other people, any stress at all immediately leads to the need for a vacation.
I’ve tried both methods, and both methods stressed me out. So far, what’s worked for me is doing neither: just creating a rhythm of work/rest that ignores the extraneous levels of calm or chaos.
That’s the barrier against the storm – creating a system that ignores it.
The Opportunity Machine 