#562 The 24 Hour Rule: Why Waiting Makes You Better at Work
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Hi, I'm Sarah and in this squiggly career shortcut I'm going to be talking about the 24 hour rule. So I talked about the 24 hour rule recently with one of my groups of learners and we were talking about it in the context of saying the hard thing. So when someone says the hard thing to you, it's obviously also hard to hear. One of my top tips was the 24 hour rule. If you give yourself 24 hours
to reflect, to kind of make sense of what you've heard, you often feel differently about it at 4 pm tomorrow versus 4 pm today. So I was having a look at this to see if there was kind of any research to support what I just thought was practically a good idea. And actually there's a lot of evidence of why generally the 24-hour rule is a good way of using our brain usefully rather than getting in our own way. So If we wait rather than instantly respond, perhaps when we're under pressure, we've received feedback we were surprised by, you know, that email that has made you really angry that we all get, you kind of have this cooling off period.
Like see the 24 hours as cooling off, and it means that you move beyond fight, flight, or freeze, none of which are usually that useful. And within that 24 hours, you're inevitably going to go to sleep. And that sleep just helps us to rest, rejuvenate, recover. The next day you always have more perspective. I also think sometimes in that 24 hours, if you think practically about what happens, you know, you go and talk to some other people, some people who are not as close to your situation, who've got a bit more distance, and that's typically really helpful.
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