How to do nothing and yet accomplish everything – with my Protestant work ethic, I was too intrigued to not pick up a book with such a title – how can one be lazy and say it out loud? I honestly thought the book was a joke, but I ended up writing an article about it – life is so surprising.
After a short introduction on human innovations caused by the need to avoid work – I got hooked on this book until the very end.According to it, processing huge amounts of data in college is not going to make a difference in the quality of your brain – aka your intelligence – so what increases it then? The author found the solution in transcendental meditation – the ultimate in doing absolutely nothing!
Meditation does improve attention span – but you still need the basic resources of being smart – which is the knowledge itself – and that’s where education – formal or not – is a great complement!
(You can get the book right from the author’s website).
