author: todd henry

... Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch Musician Stephen Nachmanovitch shares the parallels he's discovered between musical improvisation and the art of living well. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free ...

... Breakout. Principle. In their book The Breakout Principle, Herbert Benson and William Proctor taught that brilliant insights often occur when you are deeply immersed in a problem, then break away and engage in some sort of mindless ...

... die empty” could easily be misunderstood to mean spending every ounce of yourself on your career. I can imagine a sinister, evilmustached boss manipulating employees with a motivational poster containing the words “DIE EMPTY!” in an ...

... deep work is like asking a writer to compose a book while depriving him of the backspace key. The first thing that Newport says you must do in order to work deeply is to set specific time blocks on your calendar for the work that ...