Rest

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

History's most productive scientists and artists worked about four focused hours a day and rested seriously the rest of the time. Rest isn't the reward for work — it's part of how the work gets done.

Subtitled "Why You Get More Done When You Work Less," this book gathers research and the routines of highly creative people to argue that rest is not the absence of work but a skill and a partner to it — and that deliberate rest fuels the best thinking.