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Design engineers: Can you shut off your brain during non-work hours?
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DiTBho:
5 years ago, in the surgery room, not under total anesthesia, so I was conscious

me: hi Doctor, nice to see you.
surgeon: you look at me with a strange expression
me: I was actually taking a look around, and I see there is a monitor, can I watch it?
surgeon: what?
me: I'd like to see how you operate
surgeon: this is a full prosthesis(1), we have to open the leg, and there will be a lot of raw meat ...
me: ... raw meat
(I smiled at this expression, thinking about how, with the scientific method,
I first clean the inside of the turkey at Christmas, and then put it in the oven)
surgeon: are you really sure you have the right stomach to handle it?
me: sure, but... can I also ask a few questions?
surgeon: um?
me: about the titanium part, about the tolerances of the couplings
surgeon: X_X
me: and about the torque wrenches I saw on the table, ...
surgeon to the anesthetist: I think this guy wants to steal my job ...
anesthetist to the surgeon: umm, I am not sure ...
anesthetist to me: can I ask you a question?
me: sure
anesthetist: I guess you are an engineer, right?

I wonder how he figured it out  :D


edit:
(1) hip prosthesis
Georgy.Moshkin:
no need to shut off anything if you do not have an anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks. But if you have some of these and yet have a good planning skills, good experience with solving engineering problems, then maybe it's time to shut off the work, not the brain. Brain should go low power by itself when there is a plan and dividing of tasks in smaller pieces.
RJSV:
   I DO have a related job and stress thing that's been helpful to myself, during sleep time:
   In a stressful setting (at work), when tossing and turning at end of sleep time, (assuming you aren't doomed to respond to alarm clock madness), there is a technique for how to start your next day.  In other words, for the transition you would need to make, to wake up, get up, and start your new day.
It works like this:
   Suppose, as you've been glancing at your bedside clock, and must get out of bed soon, suppose you have been starting to run the day's tasks ahead, in your mind....Messed up this, and messed up that.  Now, as all those thoughts circulate, what you want to do is WAIT for a positive thought and situation, like suppose a co-worker, 'Jim' has done a few really good management items at the job, and now this Jim guy is building a new manufacturing fixture, or something...
   That's it:  that's the point in time, (laying there still in bed), that you should start up, rise up and get moving, on that positive thought.  Doesn't have to be spectacular, just maybe a little smile, and thinking positively, " That Jim really is going to make this organization move up to a better positioning, in marketplace".   Whatever, but you get the idea, just use some minor positive aspect, as a sort of trigger, saying 'Ok that's it, I should get out of bed, now'.

(Starting day grumpy isn't going to help).
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: DiTBho on June 23, 2023, 07:46:20 pm ---5 years ago, in the surgery room, not under total anaesthesia, so I was conscious
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--- End quote ---

People think that anaesthetic was invented for patient care and comfort. It was so the doctors can concentrate without the patient doing so much screaming, or worse, being a chatty one.

 ;D 
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