In a 2015 interview, David Ryan Polgar explains how busyness interferes with creativity: We need to start viewing time for reflection as a necessity, not a luxury. Unfortunately, we
The canonical (or stereotypical) view of the creative figure is one who is struck by inspiration, often after long periods of hard labor and frustration. This is an
One of the images that always sticks with me when I think about the virtues of rest (and mention in my book) is that of Winston Churchill regularly
Henri Poincaré was one of the most astute observers of the relationship between the conscious and subsconcious mind in creative work, and he developed a pretty high degree of
Cambridge from the bell tower at St Mary's Church I've quoted from this before, but I love John Littlewood's essay “The mathematician’s art of work,” In this extract, the
This week I reviewed the dust jacket for REST. I've always liked the book's cover, with its sling chair, but the whole package just looks terrific. We were lucky to
One of the enduring myths of creativity is that creative people who treat their families badly do so because the weight of their genius keeps them from being good spouses and
One of the great Silicon Valley tropes is that inexperience is a positive. The extreme expression of it-- I'm simplifying here, but not that much-- is that young people who
In the BBC Radio 4 show The Quest for Rest, poet SJ Fowler talks about the creative value of working out. We often don’t think of working out as a
it's now less than three months before REST comes out. I received a draft of the book jacket yesterday, and it looks fabulous: it's a nice warm, soothing