In Praise of Wasting Time [Audiobook] by Alan Lightman
Requirements: MP3 Player, 73 MB, 64kbps, 2 hrs 38 mins
Overview: In this timely and essential audiobook that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks.
We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the 24 hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to 10-minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with "extras". Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in "wasting time", of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction
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