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How to Know What’s Real

How to Rest

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping—the list goes on and on—it can feel like a huge accomplishment to just take a few minutes to read a book or watch TV before bed. All that busyness can lead to poor sleep quality when we finally do get to put our heads down. How does our relationship with rest impact our ability to gain real benefits from it? And how can we use our free time to rest in a culture that often moralizes rest as laziness? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of several books on rest and director of global programs at 4 Day Week Global, explains what rest is and how anyone can get started doing it more effectively. Write to us at [email protected]. Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0

You know, Becca, so like even though I rest in the sense of going sideways and unconscious at night,

0:39.0

I don't feel like I rest enough or that maybe that I don't rest properly and I mean

0:44.1

maybe I don't even know what rest is even. Same for me I feel like between

0:49.2

sleep and work those breaks that I need have never really been incorporated in my life.

0:55.0

You know I was thinking about it Becca and

0:57.0

Rest is really a cornerstone concept in Western civilization.

1:02.0

Like it's in the Bible, right at the start of Genesis.

1:04.8

There's supposed to be a Sabbath, a day of rest, a break from making and using to

1:10.0

doing something else. And what is that something else you know in the religious

1:13.8

sense it's a time for for worship for God and in that sense it's not like rest is a

1:18.2

break exactly it's more like a structured like an organizing principle like here's the thing you need in order to

1:24.8

make the rest of your life operate.

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