New article on the history of spontaneous thought
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
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Skip to contentLater this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
The Greater Good Science Center reports on a new study that seems to clarify the relationship between creativity and flourishing, that emotional state characterized by an "overall sense of
The Atlantic has a piece about the German practice of putting away toys in kindergarten for a period in order to encourage children to learn to rely more
Journalist Deborah Bogle talks about REST, digital distraction and the appeal of gardening in Adelaide Now: [A smartphone is] the last thing I want to take with me
Well, this announcement is interesting: A giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain: A new digital reconstruction method shows three neurons that branch extensively throughout the brain,
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
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
[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
Elizabeth Millard draws a link between the role of rest in serious exercise, and in creative lives, in her new article "How To Recharge And Replenish Your Body
In the philosophy of mind, there's a concept called "embodied cognition," which holds that thinking isn't just something we do with our brains; we do it with our