The Fields Medalist who works three hours a day
Quanta Magazine has a profile of Princeton mathematician and Fields Medalist June Huh, who “does about three hours of focused work” per day— a number in line with
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, REST, and the four-hour day
One of the central arguments I make in my book REST is that when they have a lot of control over their time, highly accomplished people tend to
Designing days to boost creativity: Getting work, chronotypes, and organizations in sync
Anja Svetina Nabergoj, a design thinking and creativity researcher based in Slovenia, writes about how a better understanding your chronotype and help you design better work routines: If
New study suggests “an association between creativity and physical activity in everyday life”
In my book Rest, I talked at length about the surprising research suggesting the virtues of physical activity for creatives. There’s lots of biographical data (or anecdotes) that
“The idea here is not that we should start to off random senior scientists to make room for the new blood”. (Or is it?)
Stata Center, MIT Inside Higher Ed reports on a new study by MIT professor Pierre Azoulay on the impact of the deaths of star scientists on their fields.
“You play football to escape your problems; you run to solve them”
Jeremy Hunt went running with Matt Chorley on the Red Box Politics Podcast, and talked about running and problem-solving. (And, in the interests of balance, here’s an episode featuring
“the first step to the investigation of the creative mind is the historical approach”
From the opening page of Rosamund E. M. Harding's The Anatomy of Inspiration: We venture to suggest, therefore, that the first step to the investigation of the creative
Using science in history: the case of spontaneous thinking
Within the discipline of history, the effort to use theories from the human and natural sciences-- e.g., psychology, psychoanalysis, biology, and other fields-- to explain historical change is
“Bekerja Sebentar tapi Efektif, Kunci Sukses:” REST comes to Indonesia
Perhaps my favorite new example of REST going places on its own: a long article in Indonesian about rest and its importance. (It also name-checks Cal Newport, Anders
Music to work to
I listen to music almost constantly through the day, and when I was working on REST I did some reading about music and the brain, and the different