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In Praise of Wasting Time
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In this timely and essential audiobook that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks.
We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the 24 hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to 10-minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with "extras". Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in "wasting time", of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks.
Gustav Mahler routinely took three or four-hour walks after lunch, stopping to jot down ideas in his notebook. Carl Jung did his most creative thinking and writing when he visited his country house. In his 1949 autobiography, Albert Einstein described how his thinking involved letting his mind roam over many possibilities and making connections between concepts that were previously unconnected. With In Praise of Wasting Time, Professor Alan Lightman documents the rush and heave of the modern world, suggests the technological and cultural origins of our time-driven lives, and examines the many values of "wasting time" - for replenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Break free from the idea that we must not waste a single second, and discover how sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.
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De: Alan Lightman
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The Accidental Universe
- The World You Thought You Knew
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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With all the passion, curiosity, and precise yet lyrical prose that have marked his previous books, Alan Lightman here explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. He looks at the difficult dialogue between science and religion, the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature, the possibility that our universe is simply an accident, the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world, and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws.
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Spiritual Atheist Laments
- De Michael en 02-16-15
De: Alan Lightman
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is the result of these seemingly contradictory impulses, written as an extended meditation on an island in Maine, where Lightman and his wife spend their summers. Framing the dialogue between religion and science as a contrast between absolutes and relatives, Lightman explores our human quest for truth and meaning and the different methods of religion and science in that quest. Along the way, he draws from sources ranging from St. Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's relativity.
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I've been looking for this book all my life.
- De ashepler en 07-24-18
De: Alan Lightman
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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more - from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.
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Mumbler
- De Phil Gaskill en 08-07-22
De: Alan Lightman
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Einstein's Dreams
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 2 h y 32 m
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A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, and people are fated to repeat their triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children.
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Inspirational
- De KalebEvan en 09-22-16
De: Alan Lightman
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The Transcendent Brain
- Spirituality in the Age of Science
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity and things larger than ourselves. But these experiences are not easily understood by science, which holds that all things can be explained in terms of atoms and molecules. Is there space in our scientific worldview for these spiritual experiences?
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Powerful Reflection on the Creative Transcendent
- De Tom en 05-02-23
De: Alan Lightman
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Screening Room
- Family Pictures
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Alan Lightman's grandfather, M. A. Lightman, was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie-theater empire that catapulted the family to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his descendants, haunting them for a half century after his death. In this lyrical and impressionistic memoir, Lightman writes about returning to Memphis in an attempt to understand the people he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier.
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“Honeysuckle” Memories Abound
- De KK9 en 06-20-23
De: Alan Lightman
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The Accidental Universe
- The World You Thought You Knew
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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With all the passion, curiosity, and precise yet lyrical prose that have marked his previous books, Alan Lightman here explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. He looks at the difficult dialogue between science and religion, the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature, the possibility that our universe is simply an accident, the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world, and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws.
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Spiritual Atheist Laments
- De Michael en 02-16-15
De: Alan Lightman
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is the result of these seemingly contradictory impulses, written as an extended meditation on an island in Maine, where Lightman and his wife spend their summers. Framing the dialogue between religion and science as a contrast between absolutes and relatives, Lightman explores our human quest for truth and meaning and the different methods of religion and science in that quest. Along the way, he draws from sources ranging from St. Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's relativity.
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I've been looking for this book all my life.
- De ashepler en 07-24-18
De: Alan Lightman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre In Praise of Wasting Time
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- Marcus Davis Jr
- 11-11-18
Praise this book!
Mr. Lightman is onto something big. The concepts he introduces in here are necessary. It almost sounds impossible in today’s society to just “waste time”, but I now know why I need to. Great listen.
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- Tofi Loves Lina
- 05-01-21
Great story ☺️
I loved it...
It took me to the good times of peace of mind ..
Technology can make our life speedily successful but not peaceful...
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- Tom
- 07-08-23
Timely Observations from Lightman
Valuable insights for our “Rush & Heave” obsessed Times. Like the Slow Food Movement he calls for us not only to “Stop and Smell the Roses” but to relish and take advantage of those opportunities to let our Minds wander and Waste Time.
Nice Reading experience with his soothing narration. Five Stars. *****
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- Anonymous User
- 04-30-24
An Essential Read for Everyone’
This book highlights the scientific and mental importance of doing absolutely nothing. In this day and age, we are bound by our connections to “the grid”. Endless emails, messages, comments… We are practically haunted by them everyday. Helping out a friend becomes yet another task on our huge list of things to do. It’s sad and pathetic how much we have lost the true connection to others and ourselves. This book will guide you in restoring that connection and lead to a much better-balanced and fulfilled life. If you’re overworked and burnt out like I was, then this book is exactly what you need.
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