“I’ve got it down to a fine art: walk, scroll, glance up, stop, tap, walk”
In the Guardian, Viv Groskop confesses that “I’m a bit of a wexter:" We all have bad habits, and now there’s an appropriately nasty word for mine: wexting (using
Bored and Brilliant: Day 1
WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant challenge starts today. What’s on the agenda? As you move from place to place, keep your phone in your pocket, out of your direct
“A walk of twenty or thirty miles a day is one of his favorite amusements”
One of the things that constantly amazes me about our ancestors is how much more exercise they got in the course of a day, and especially how much
“How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?”
Yet another anecdote on walking and mind-wandering, this time from Chemistry World: In late 1922, Wolfgang Pauli took an aimless stroll through Copenhagen’s beautiful streets, deep in thought. Presently,
Thomas Jefferson on exercise: “You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk”
Thomas Jefferson, writing about exercise in 1785: Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise
“stuck behind a slow, weaving wexter”
We’ve all see the videos of people walking into fountains, falling off piers, or hitting things while walking and texting. In case you haven’t, here’s an example: (The
“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
New study on walking and creativity: It’s the walking, not the where
I’ve long been interested in the relationship between walking and creative thinking. the sandwalk I devoted a chapter of The Distraction Addiction to walking and restorative activities, particularly
Two Guardian pieces on the philosophy of walking
I’ve long been interested in walking as an intellectual, and cognitively stimulating, activity. So it was cool to find two essays in the Guardian about walking and thinking.
Rest is Not Idleness: John Lubbock, Charles Darwin, and the Value of Daydreams
You should read this very interesting article about daydreaming by Jessica Lahey in the Atlantic. I’ve been reading about daydreaming extensively lately, and it has caused me regret