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In Praise of Wasting Time with MIT Professor Alan Lightman
Slice of MIT
English - April 04, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCourses Education Technology mit alumni slice massachusetts institute technology research cambridge authors boston Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
According to novelist/essayist and theoretical physicist Alan Lightman, unstructured time that allows our minds to roam freely can lead to more creativity. “We need a new mental attitude,” he advocates—one “that values our inner reflection, values stillness, values privacy, values personal reflection—that honors the inner self.”
Lightman—who is a professor of the practice of the humanities as well as a senior lecturer in physics at MIT—shared these and other thoughts on creativity with an audience of MIT alumni in late 2018. He delivered his lecture at MIT’s Endicott House during a holiday luncheon event jointly organized by the MIT Alumni Association’s Cardinal and Gray Society and Emma Rogers Society.
Read more on the Slice of MIT blog: bit.ly/2TTn3MX
Read the transcript: https://bit.ly/2UuF2gT
Photo: Jack Mohr ’50