My speaking gigs are handled by the (totally awesome) Lavin Agency, and I’ve now added a talk on rest. Here’s the description.

REST: WHY COFFEE BREAKS, SABBATHS, AND VACATIONS MAKE US MORE PRODUCTIVE, MORE CREATIVE, AND MORE OURSELVES

Rest is like breathing or running. Everyone has a basic understanding of how to do it. Doing it really well, though, requires a knowledge that few bother to acquire. But learning how to rest well can boost your creativity, increase your productivity, and improve your quality of life. Learning how to rest may be the smartest lifehack of all.

All too often we treat rest as a luxury good or perk, or even a design flaw in our biology. In today’s 24/7 always-on world, we celebrate hard-driven entrepreneurs, over-schedule ourselves and our children, and treat sleep as a nuisance. But some of the most famous and successful people in history took rest seriously. Charles Darwin and Ernest Hemingway (among many) did their best work when alternating periods of intense focus and rest. During World War II, Winston Churchill took two-hour daily naps and Dwight Eisenhower unwound after 15-hour days with bridge games.

As I explain in this talk, sources ranging from ancient philosophers to modern neuroscientists and economists tell us that rest is not an obstacle to a productive life, but an essential part of it. If you want to work well, you must know how to rest well.

If you’re intrigued, get in touch— they’ll be happy to tell you more!