num_pages: 320
description: Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest from sleep to vacation Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers painters and thinkers---from Darwin to Stephen King---to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. Deliberate rest as Pang calls it is the true key to productivity and will give us more energy sharper ideas and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.
language: English
title: Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
publisher: Basic Books