Every Once In A While
The American author and poet, Anne Lamott , on the benefits of rest:
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Taking Risks, Attracting Good Luck, and the Benefits of Rest | James Clear
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
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