“Sorry for the mess,” I said, but there was no mess. None that my eyes could see anyway, but my eyes were not hers. Every time she visited me over the years she’d sweep her finger along things it never occurred to me to clean, the backs of
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“Beethoven’s practice of counting out exactly sixty beans for his morning cup of coffee”
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
“Take a human body from 50,000 years ago and one from the 1950s, and they will look more similar to one another than either does to the average human body today.”
― 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
― 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
“Rest doesn’t just magically appear when we need it,”
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
“But I’ve also come to see our respect for overwork as, perhaps a bit paradoxically, intellectually lazy. Measuring time is literally the easiest way to assess someone’s dedication and productivity, but it’s also very unreliable.”
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
“if it’s accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.”
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
― Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
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