
In "Rest," Alex Soojung-Kim Pang challenges our hustle culture with counterintuitive science: working less actually boosts productivity. Endorsed by Arianna Huffington, it reveals how Darwin and Hemingway achieved genius in just four-hour workdays. Could your exhaustion be killing your success?
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Why did Charles Darwin work just four hours daily while revolutionizing science? How did Winston Churchill lead Britain through WWII while taking daily naps? These weren't signs of laziness but deliberate strategies fueling extraordinary achievements. History's most accomplished figures share a counterintuitive secret: they worked less but accomplished more through strategic rest. This revelation challenges our "always-on" culture with compelling evidence that rest isn't work's opposite but its essential partner. Our modern glorification of busyness-checking emails at dinner, responding to Slack messages in bed-has created an epidemic of burnout while actually reducing creative output. Before the Industrial Revolution, work patterns followed natural rhythms and task completion rather than rigid schedules. Today's knowledge workers face a cruel irony: we're rewarded not for productivity but for performing busyness, while the quality of our thinking suffers. What if the path to our best work isn't working more but working less-and resting better?
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