Guy Kawasaki recently spoke at the Project Time Off's Upside of Downtime Forum about the importance of taking time off, and the need for leaders to practice what
Well this looks interesting: Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu, a renowned voice in the women’s leadership movement,
When I was writing REST, one of the surprising things that emerged from my research was that people who have a lot of leisure are really well-organized and spend some of
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
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
“If a vacation is done well, it gives your ego all this extra time to refuel, by not trying to manage your brain, not trying to be on
Good advice from Bill Gates (whose "think week" tradition earns him a place in REST): “Bill Gates once said he liked hiring smart, lazy people because they know
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
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