Introduction

Rest intro

News, Literary Items, & Podcasts

PODCAST

Living Unoptimized. Tim Ferriss on The Rich Roll Podcast. 2023.

NEWS

Taking it slow. Harvard Matthew Solan. Health Publishing. 2022.

NEWS

Jenny Odell on why we need to do nothing. Elle Hunt. The Guardian. 2019.

NEWS

What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away. Jia Tolentino. The New Yorker. 2019.

PODCAST

How 'Wintering' Replenishes. Krista Tippett with Katherine May. On Being. 2021.

NEWS

Slow Thought: A Manifesto. Vincenzo Di Nicola. Aeon. 2018.

PODCAST

The Buddhist Case for Laziness. Dan Harris with Brother Chân Pháp Hữu. Ten Percent Happier. 2024.

NEWS

Why Your 'Digital Sabbath' Will Fail. Kelsey Osgood. Wired. 2022.

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Physicist Alan Lightman on the Fallacy of Absolute Rest. Maria Popova. The Marginalian. 2018.

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A Philosopher on Brain Rest. Megan Craig. The New York Times. 2019.

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The Wisdom of Rest. Yael Schonbrun Ph.D. Psychology Today. 2018.

PODCAST

Dissecting Downtime: The Impact of Gender on Rest. NeuroLeadership Institute's Your Brain At Work. 2022.

PODCAST

The Limits of Cognitive Capacity & Transforming How We Work. NeuroLeadership Institute's Your Brain At Work. 2021.

NEWS

How To Rest When You Are Too Tired and Busy to Rest. Sarah Greenberg. Psychology Today. 2023.

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Why We Don't "Get" Rest. Matthew Edlund, M.D. Psychology Today. 2011.

PODCAST

Do More By Doing Less. Cap Newport on The Rich Roll Podcast. 2024.

NEWS

Why rest and recovery is essential for athletes. Rick Ansorge. UCHealth Today. 2022.

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Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime. Ferris Jabr. Scientific American. 2013.

PODCAST

Sabbath and the Art of Rest. Judith Shulevitz on The Ezra Klein Show. 2023.

PODCAST

Why rest is an act of resistance. Life Kit with Shereen Marisol Meraji. NPR. 2022.

NEWS

Why Rest Days Are Important For Long-Term Growth. David Roche. Outside. 2021.

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How To Beat Burnout Through The Radical Power of Rest. Melody Wilding. Forbes. 2023.

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The 'productivity paranoia' managers can't shake. Alex Christian. BBC. 2022.

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WTF is productivity paranoia? (and why it's counter productive). Cloey Callahan. WorkLife News. 2022.

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When Doing is Your Undoing. Palena Neale. Psychology Today. 2022.

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Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic. Mark Smith. The Conversation. 2020.

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Religions have long known that getting away from it all is good for the mind, body and spirit. Kristen Lucken. The Conversation. 2022.

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Choreography of the Body's Collapse. heidi andrea restrepo rhodes. Invisible Culture. 2021.

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Resisting a Rest: How Urgency Culture Polices Our Work. Lydia Phillip. Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia. 2022.

PODCAST

Rest as Resistance. Ayana Young with Tricia Hersey. For The Wild. 2020.

NEWS

What is internalized capitalism? Alia Dastagir. USA Today. 2021.

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The 5-day workweek is dead. Anna North. Vox. 2023.

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Marx's Theory of Working Class Precariousness. R. Jamil Jonna & John Bellamy Foster. Monthly Review. 2016.

PODCAST

Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems. Krista Tippett with Christine Runyan. On Being. 2021.

PODCAST

A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community. Lucas Johnson with Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons. On Being. 2021.

NEWS

Tempted to Skip Savasana? 10 Top Yoga Teachers Explain Why It’s the Most Important Pose. Bee Creel. Yoga Journal. 2021.

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What is rest? Nuakh. 2021.

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The Archetype of Rest. Columbus Art Therapy. 2024.

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How to Embrace Doing Nothing. Arthur Brooks. The Atlantic. 2022.

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Escape the grind with "niksen," the Dutch art of doing nothing. Kevin Dickinson. Big Think. 2023.

NEWS

Bone Tired. Underpaid. Performing Surgery. What Could Go Wrong? Nathan Kohrman. Mother Jones. 2023.

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Exhausted, disconnected, and fed up: parental burnout. Alan Ralph. The Guardian. 2023.

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Moms are Beyond Tired: They’re facing an ‘exhaustion gap’. Audrey Brashich. SheKnows. 2022.

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Why Rest Is So Important for Black Mothers. Erin McIntire. The Everymom. 2023.

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Doing Nothing and Eat, Pray, Love. Yardenne Greenspan. Ploughshares. 2022.

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Traditions’ knowledge on the Importance of Rest. Interfaith America. 2023.

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The rest cure challenges cherished myths about a working body. Alicia Puglionesi. Aoen. 2020.

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A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems. Dwight Garner. The New York Times. 2018.

FICTION

A Man Asleep. Georges Perec. 1967.

FICTION

My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Ottessa Moshfegh. 2019.

FICTION

The Yellow Wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 1892.

Books, Videos, & Films

VIDEO

Rest can make you better at your job. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. TED The Way We Work. 2023.

BOOK

How to Do Nothing. Jenny Odell. 2020.

FILM

Modern Times. Charlie Chaplin. 1936.

BOOK

The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age. Claudia Hammond. 2021.

BOOK

Negotiations. Gilles Deleuze. 1995.

BOOK

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. Katherine May. 2020.

BOOK

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout. Cal Newport. 2024.

BOOK

In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed. Carl Honoré. 2005.

BOOK

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Labor Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane. Emily Guendelsberger. 2019.

BOOK

The Philosophy of Rest. Ella Adelia Fletcher. 2010.

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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. Tricia Hersey. 2022.

BOOK

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. Jonathan Crary. 2014.

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Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness. Alan Derickson. 2013.

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Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Lives in the Twenty-First Century. Pietro Basso. 2003.

BOOK

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America. John De Graaf. 2003.

VIDEO

The real reason why we are tired and what to do about it. Saundra Dalton-Smith at TEDxAtlanta. YouTube. 2019.

VIDEO

How to fix the exhausted brain. Brady Wilson at TEDxMississauga. YouTube. 2017.

BOOK

Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria. S. Weir Mitchell. 1877.

BOOK

Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing. Andrew Smart. 2017.

BOOK

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Celeste Headlee. 2021.

BOOK

Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. 2007.

VIDEO

"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang. The On Being Project. YouTube. 2020.

BOOK

Do Pause: You are not a To Do list. Robert Poynton. 2019.

BOOK

Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, and Ecology. Anders Hayden. 1999.

Experts

TRICIA HERSEY

CAL NEWPORT

CARL HONORÉ

JOHN DE GRAAF

WENDELL BERRY

Resources, Organizations, & Institutes

ORGANIZATION

Rest For Resistance

ORGANIZATION

The Nap Ministry

ORGANIZATION

Slow Food

Research & Original Documents

RESEARCH

Mental health effects of long work hours, night and weekend work, and short rest periods. Sato, Kuroda, & Owan. Social Science & Medicine. 2020.

RESEARCH

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: A systematic review. Xiong, Lipsitz, Nasri et al. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2020.

RESEARCH

Review: Beyond eight hours rest: sleep, capitalism, and the biological body. Emily Lim Rogers. Dialectical Anthropology. 2016.

RESEARCH

Roundtable on Overwork: Causes and Consequences of Rising Work Hours. Hochschild et al. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 2001.

RESEARCH

A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork. Lonnie Golden. Journal of Business Ethics. 2009.

RESEARCH

Ethical Issues Relating to the Health Effects of Long Working Hours. Allard Dembe. Journal of Business Ethics. 2009.

RESEARCH

Aesthetic Functions of Silence and Rests in Music. Zofia Lissa. The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism. 1964.

RESEARCH

Moved by Nothing: Listening to Musical Silence. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis. Journal of Music Theory. 2007.

RESEARCH

The Rest Cure: Repetition or Resolution of Victorian Women's Conflicts? Ellen Bassuk. Poetics Today. 1985.

RESEARCH

A Theology of Rest. Luisa Gallagher. Christian Education Journal. 2019.

Connections