Focus, mind-wandering, and the brain
Psychiatrist and Neuro Business Group founder Srini Pillay has a short piece on the Harvard Business Review blog arguing that "Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus," but
Shultz hours and the need for breaks
David Leonhardt has a piece in the New York Times about George Shultz's practice while he was Secretary of State during the Reagan era of taking an hour
New article on the history of spontaneous thought
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
Daily creativity and flourishing
The Greater Good Science Center reports on a new study that seems to clarify the relationship between creativity and flourishing, that emotional state characterized by an "overall sense of
Toy-free play
The Atlantic has a piece about the German practice of putting away toys in kindergarten for a period in order to encourage children to learn to rely more
Gardening and deep play
Journalist Deborah Bogle talks about REST, digital distraction and the appeal of gardening in Adelaide Now: [A smartphone is] the last thing I want to take with me
Giant neurons wrap around mice brains
Well, this announcement is interesting: A giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain: A new digital reconstruction method shows three neurons that branch extensively throughout the brain,
Embodied cognition and Rest
Recently I talked with Dutch company Made4Motion founder Sanne Clifford about rest, how we think about busyness, and the role that physical movement plays in stimulating creativity. The
“The writing stuff just has much faster reinforcement rates, and so it’s real addictive”
In REST I talk about how the most restorative forms of rest are active and skilled rather than passive or easy. This seems counterintuitive, but in fact people
“This book has something to offer anyone looking for new ways to structure their daily lives”
[bookstore, vienna, austria] A review of REST on Shelf Awareness: Rest combines current neuroscience and psychology with examples from the lives of great scientists and artists to argue