A few take-outs:

• Rest isn't just lazin' around
• (Good) Rest is...
  • active
  • skill
  • social
  • you can get better at it... just as you can get better at sports 
• the most successful people organize their lives around their days
• focused hours beat long hours
• we should work to our circadian rhythm
• we should *layer* work and rest... with time-off, with sabbaticals
• A study of Southern California academics found that the most successful (inc 4 Nobel prize winners) took lots of time off, more sport etc
• Their less successful colleagues were "too busy working to take time off"
• 25% of startup ideas come to people when they're on vacation
  • The idea for the WXO was born in Cabo Roig beach...

• Deep play is how we should think of time off - the leisure equivalent of Cal Newport's Deep Work
  • "Deep play" was conceived by an anthropologist Clifford Geertz in his essay Deep Play: Notes on The Balinese Cockfight
  • Deep play is reflective of meaningful work... a counterpart... similar type of goals but in a different context
  • This is why deeply successful people like extreme sports: climbing, ultramarathons, skiing, sailing.. 
  • But also why we can all embrace similar ideas. The idea is not just to observe what *they* do, but to bring these ideas into our lives, and into the experiences we create...
• How might we all bring deep play into the experiences we create?
• Work vs time off is NOT a zero sum game...more leisure may mean fewer hours working, but it will mean more productivity
• Good rest includes space for...
  • Mind wandering
  • Tinkering
  • Exploration
  • How do you allow time - for yourself - and design experiences - for others - that create space for mind-wandering, tinkering, exploration?
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