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In Praise of Wasting Time

By Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Alan Lightman
Unabridged — 2 hours, 38 minutes
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By Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Alan Lightman
Unabridged — 2 hours, 38 minutes
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In this timely and essential book 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 twenty-­four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to ten minute units of efficiency. We take ou...