Waiting for the Weekend – The Atlantic
[G. K.] Chesterton argued that a man compelled by lack of choice or by social pressure to play golf when he would rather be attending to some solitary
Americans “equate happiness with high intensity,” and we always have
Emma Seppala, whose new book The Happiness Something Or Other came out this week, is doing an admirable job of hitting the airwaves to promote the book. (I
Taking rest without making work for someone else
Two pieces crossed my transom that have me thinking about this challenge: How do we make time for rest and leisure— but not at someone else’s expense? Large
“There is no kind of idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as… the appearance of business”
That was Samuel Johnson writing in The Idler two centuries ago (and quoted in a more recent essay by Steven Poole). Some things seem constant. There is no
It’s hard work looking like you’re even busier
Marketing firm Havas has released a survey, “The Modern Nomad: Catch Me If You Can,” which looks at prosumers and their perception and management of time. A couple
“leisure should not be crammed between the vacant spaces of working life”
This morning I ran across “The Idle Manifesto,” written by a British organization called the Idle Foundation. [T]he Idle Foundation wants to encourage a world where people engage
Winston Churchill on “painting as a pastime”
I’m just back from a trip to England, where I was doing interviews and archival work for Rest. While most of my time was spent in the British
Wilder Penfield: “Rest, with nothing else, results in rust”
"Rest, with nothing else, results in rust," Wilder Penfield wrote in his great essay The Second Career: "It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain." The essay was an argument against
“men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least”
From Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists (1912 translation), pp. 96-97: [Leonardo da Vinci] also painted in Milan, for the Friars of S. Dominic, at S. Maria delle
“when chemistry distresses your soul, seek peace in the great pacifier, Shakespeare:” reading advice from William Osler
Two quotes from the great medical educator William Osler about the need for hobbies, and the value of a practice he developed as a student: reading before bed.