Rest, creativity, and note-taking: Lewis Carroll’s nyctograph
One of the things I discovered when working on Rest was how commonly creative people keep a notebook handy, when going on walks, at their beside, or even by
Martin Lindstrom: “I’ve literally written all my books while swimming”
Thrive Global, Ariana Huffington's new enterprise, has an interview with Martin Lindstrom (whose biography describes him as a "Change Agent. Brand Futurist. Bestselling Author.") that touches on exercise, boredom,
The most important creative collaboration of your life is with your own Muse
Henri Poincaré was one of the most astute observers of the relationship between the conscious and subsconcious mind in creative work, and he developed a pretty high degree of
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John Le Carré: “I was always very careful to give my country second-best”
John Le Carré, talking in the Paris Review about working on his first book while commuting to work: In those days English newspapers were much too big to
Put your phone away during hard tasks: “the mere presence of a cell phone may be distracting”
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studying distraction and cellphones have discovered something interesting: not only does your ability to handle complicated cognitive tasks diminish when you
“I’m far more likely to find a solution by going for a walk than sitting at my desk and ‘thinking'”
BBC correspondent Finlo Rohrer has a nice piece about the importance of “purposeless walking” to creative people in the BBC News Magazine-- the kinds of walks that aren’t meant
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper”
When I was writing The Distraction Addiction, I got into the habit of getting up super-early to write. I'm not a morning person, and never have been, but