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Podcast: Blinkist Podcast - Interviews | Personal Development | Productivity | Business | Psychology
Episode: Alan Lightman: Wasting Time is Good For You (Bonus Episode)
Description: Do you feel bad about wasting time? Good news: you can stop beating yourself up! In the bonus episode, MIT professor and writer Alan Lightman shares the benefits of procrastination and how wasting time is essential to our productivity and creativity.
Are you slavishly devoted to your to-do list, rushing around to fit every vacant area of time to a task? In this day and age, most of us are—and it's doing no favors to our creativity, our minds, and our very humanity. Something's got to give, and Alan Lightman has a plan. Or, rather, a lack of one. An...