“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
Amos Tversky, an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist, once said this phrase.
Tversky believed that the moments when you can “waste hours” thinking, exploring, and following hunches actually save you years of wasted effort.
If you only spend your time on tasks and meetings, you will never have the time needed for real insight or serendipitous discoveries.
Go waste a couple of hours following your curiosities and see where they take you.
Allow yourself time to breathe and slack off; it’s the fuel to become more creative and solve problems more effectively.
Here’s my quote for the day.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell