How To Do Great Work by Doing Less and Resting More
Here are my musings on how we can work less to become more creative, productive, and have more time to rest and play. With extracts from ‘Rest’. Only in recent history has ‘working hard’ signalled pride rather than shame.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb MEET YOUR DEFAULT MODE NETWORK (OR DMN) “These studies convinced … neuroscientists that the resting brain isn’t inactive. The brain automatically switches on a default mode network (DMN), a series of interconnected sections that activate as soon as people stop concentrating on external tasks, and shifts from outward-focused to inward-focused cognition. As they’ve explored it further, scientists have realised that the DMN and resting-state are doing critical work on our behalf. … In other words, a set of activities that we’re not conscious of (pretty much by definition), and which we didn’t even know existed until the 1990s, turns out to be implicated in just about every significant cognitive and emotional activity. Intelligence?