Not learning anything

Being tired/feeling frustrated is a part of learning.  It’s supposed to happen this way, you have worked hard this semester.  For me, the troubling part of feeling exhausted comes because when I’m tired I can’t figure out what kind of rest I need.  I'm pretty sure that the right kind of rest is not to take a nap and move on though.  When we do this, we miss out on other really important parts of learning.  Maybe the right kind of rest is playing a game? Or making a list of all of the things you do know?  I’m sort of crappily referring to this model for teaching/learning/life/awesomeness that I learned about a four-ish years ago.  It’s called natural cycles.  Here’s what it looks like in a picture:

if we do relaxation correctly, then we get to celebration! and perhaps to the other parts of the cycle that are necessary if we seek to internalize and share the lessons from our experiences.