Rest: A Revolutionary Act in Modern Society

Rest is important in the age of automation because it demands creativity from those that don’t want to live a mechanical and predetermined life. Rest is the driving force behind your mind’s creative ability. Humans aren’t robots, yet most of our lives are spent in an unconscious repetition of tasks that are graded by time spent rather than results.

I’m writing this installment with the themes of the last—exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, rest—still in mind. There are so many reasons why any of us might feel exhausted and depleted, but just now I find myself wondering how much of it is the result of aimless labors that serve only the operations of a techno-economic system designed to offer us ev

For many of us, the challenge of rest lies in the act of stepping back from the things we think we should be doing. We’re conditioned to value self-control, grit and persistence. We equate rest with laziness, weakness or failure. Embracing the Reitoff principle means recognising that – sometimes – it’s worth doing nothing at all. Not having deep sh