Walter Dill Scott, in his 1914 book Increasing Human Efficiency in Business (available on the Internet Archive), advises workers on the need for hobbies: Upon entering business every young man should
If you ask people how they're doing, you'll often get some variation of "I'm so busy!" Many people make the mistake of confusing busyness with productivity; in fact, they're
Every now and then I come across some old essay that’s worth preserving and sharing. Recently I came across this 1876 piece by a Scottish-born American physician, Alexander
I'm working on a short ebook on my early morning practice and how it illustrates the way I combine work and rest, and (via Roger Ekirch's classic work
Science of Us writer Drake Baer lays out the argument that Donald Trump's, umm, distinctive personality characteristics can be blamed on (or are exacerbated by) sleep deprivation: Earlier
I recently wrote about the new book Blitzed, which look at drugs by the Nazis and how the ideology of National Socialism-- and the increasingly desperate needs of the
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
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