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POPS10 Ways History's Finest Kept Their Focus at Work
7. Aim low Don’t schedule every minute of your day 8. Take time to relax The great all reserved time to relax. And this doesn’t mean engaging in some semi-productive activity like reading a book or washing the dishes. No, they blocked out time to do nothing at all. Gandhi would often spend time just staring at the horizon. Churchill would sit down to smoke a cigar after lunch and Beethoven would stop off for a few beers after his afternoon walk. In his recent autobiography, Alan Greenspan mentions that he too makes time to reflect each day. 9. Get up early(?) This one is the subject of hot debate. Samuel Johnson, Churchill and Dylan Thomas got up late. Gandhi, Franklin and Mandela all got up early. 10. Exercise! Emerson, Beethoven, Nietzsche, Victor Hugo and Gandhi all went for walks. Nietzsche said that he ’scribbled’ notes while he took his walk and claims that some of his best thoughts came in this way. Mandela’s 5 am walks are legendary. The story goes that he on
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POPS"Neurotheology" Try synthesizing this view with Metzinger's "phenomenal self-model" (see my clip on this subject)-- what is the result? What would Michel Foucault say about this development in human discourse?
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POPSThe Fictions of Foucault's Scholarship Michel Foucault's The History of Madness has been translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Andrew Scull argues that the shoddy scholarship and history of this famous thinker will be laid bare to English readers. Via Eric Scott Kaufman
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