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
Work-life balance is about years, not days
[This is a repost of a piece I first published on Thrive Global.] When I was working on my book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You
The flat, non-distracting doorways of the new Apple spaceship
Having written so much in REST and on this blog about the creative power of walks, I was struck by this detail in Julia Love’s Reuters article about
“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
“We’re still stuck in this perception of sleep as a luxury”
The BBC has a piece about "How to nap successfully at work." For a short piece, it ranges pretty widely, talking about the various national approaches to napping
Because we “treat overwork as a badge of honour… we have forgotten the importance of rest”
When I was in London in November, I had a number of interviews with reporters who had agreed to do magazine pieces about REST. The Evening Standard article
“Je brein werkt door als je bewust rust:” I don’t know what it means, but apparently I said it
An article about REST is out in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. It quotes me as saying “Je brein werkt door als je bewust rust.” It might also
Reviews of Rest while I was away
I've been out for the last several days with a bad cold-- the kind where you have just enough energy to move from the bed to the couch,
“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
My DLD17 session with Arianna Huffington is now online
My session on Rest (or as it was called in the program, REST!!!) at DLD17 is now up online. Arianna Huffington and I talk about deliberate rest, multitasking,