The NY Times – Opinion Pages – You’re Too Busy. You Need a ‘Shultz Hour.’ – By David Leonhardt – Published: April 18, 2017
If there were one thing you could NOT do that would allow you to think more strategically and arrive at solutions to life’s more elusive challenges, would you consider not doing that thing?
If that thing were to merely unplug for one hour a week, would that seem too much to ask?
David Leonhart, in an NYT Op-Ed, “You’re Too Busy…” reminds us all what we know at our core, that the information gathering compulsion that has gripped the affluent world is also immeasurably crippling.
Leonhardt writes that the task-negative mode [when we’re not doing anything] is more colloquially known as daydreaming, and, as Daniel J. Levitin of McGill University has written it “is responsible for our moments of greatest creativity and insight, when we’re able to solve problems that previously seemed unsolvable.”