From Bertie Forbes, “Recreation,” in Keys to Success: Personal Efficiency (New York: B. C. Forbes, 1918) 222-230. If you want to accomplish the largest amount of work of which you
While success ostensibly is won during working hours, in reality it is most often won during non business hours, the hours that are spent away from the bench
"We each have two lives,” a wise person once said, “and the second begins when we realise we have only one.” I can’t tell you which wise person,
Whatever dissipates physical or mental power obviously never re-creates. Many eminent men have found almost all the recreation they required through switching from one activity to another, through
You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the
Drugs aren’t the only thing that can addle our brains. New research confirms what your brain may feel following a long, uncontrolled binge through the depths of your
One of the best things my wife and I did in London last year was visit the Churchill War Rooms. I had just come from LSE, where I
Sampling 16,426 Norwegian workers who responded to ads in online newspapers, a team lead by University of Bergen researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen found that workaholics — or 7.8
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
I started reading Paul Lafargue’s 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy a couple days ago. Lafargue was a Cuban-born French writer, a wealthy plantation owner’s son who got