Opinion | Sleep And Rest Are Important for Kids - The New York Times

Of course, given the screaming, incessant demands of the modern world, authentic rest sounds like a utopian fantasy. Who has time to do nothing? But rest is not nothing; it is essential to who we are and what we can become. Far from being mere “down time” or a boring break in the action, rest is a time of crucial metabolic and psycho-spiritual reor
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The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
We have inherited from all this a deeply bizarre idea of what it means to spend your time off “well”—and, conversely, what counts as wasting it. In this view of time, anything that doesn’t create some form of value for the future is, by definition, mere idleness. Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work, or perhaps fo... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

