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In Praise of Wasting Time with MIT Professor Alan Lightman

Slice of MIT: Stories from MIT Presented by the MIT Alumni Association by MIT Alumni Association | An Office of MIT

Apr 4, 201900:32:56Education

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 o...

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In Praise of Wasting Time with MIT Professor Alan Lightman is an episode from Slice of MIT: Stories from MIT Presented by the MIT Alumni Association by MIT Alumni Association | An Office of MIT. According to novelist/essayist and theoretica...

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