The lives of history’s most creative figures show we don’t have to work eighty hours every week to succeed in our lives’ work
Deliberate rest is important because some of our most creative work happens when we take the kinds of breaks that allow our unconscious minds to keep plugging away at a problem even as we rest.
“If sleep doesn’t serve some vital function, it is the biggest mistake evolution ever made.”
~ Allan Rechtschaffen
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