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In Praise of Wasting Time (TED Books)BOOK DETAILAmazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a freebusiness account Series: TED Books Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ TED (May 15,2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1501154362 ISBN-13: 978-1501154362 Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x7 inchesStep By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "In Praise of Wasting Time (TED Books)"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionIn this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life,Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam,without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worriedabout wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which thetwentyfour hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to ten minute units ofefficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants orour brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children areoverloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t havetime to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our timedrivenexistence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting themind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduledactivities or intended tasks. Gustav Mahler routinely took three or fourhour walks after lunch,stopping to jot down ideas in his notebook. Carl Jung did his most creative thinking and writingwhen he visited his country house. In his 1949 autobiography, Albert Einstein described how histhinking involved letting his mind roam over many possibilities and making connections betweenconcepts that were previously unconnected. With In Praise of Wasting Time, Professor AlanLightman documents the rush and heave of the modern world, suggests the technological andcultural origins of our timedriven lives, and examines the many values of “wasting time”—forreplenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Breakfree from the idea that we must not waste a single second, and discover how sometimes the bestthing to do is to do nothing at all.
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