Finding relations between activities you pursue may can be very beneficial, to lay down that idea let me take an example from my own life.
I’ve found productivity to be dependent on physical exercise and social interactions, giving them a correlation.
From that discovery I could then reason that to be productive, sports as well as spending time with friends and family is not a distraction but maybe even an essential part to be able to go through unreasonably rational and too long difficult periods of rational thought.