
Every Once In A While

Our best work as creatives—big-picture thinking, creativity, strategy, ideas, connection—can only happen when stepping away.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
We might have periods of furious output; to get there, we require periods of faithful input. With input, there’s a restoration of fertile, vibrant thinking. You might need a monthlong fallow after a big project. Or maybe it’s two weeks. You might even do it in a minor way — a half-day mini-sabbatical, say, to achieve what the Harvard psychologist
... See moreBonnie Tsui • Opinion | You Are Doing Something Important When You Aren’t Doing Anything - The New York Times
It’s no coincidence that we keep grappling with the language for how to cultivate a good and productive life (witness the successive manias for wellness in the form of hygge, Marie Kondo, tech, freedom from tech). We all struggle daily with the balance of work and play. Both are essential to a life full of meaning. Fallow time, when practiced the
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