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Joseph Jebelli’s father burned out and Joseph seemed headed for the same fate as he stayed late at work to be seen and came in while ill to prove his dedication. Like his father, he was ignoring his grandmother’s advice that “rest is wisdom.”

A neuroscientist, Dr. Jebelli began to study the brain at rest and realized he needed to change.

“What if I told you that people often succeed in life not despite their inactivity but because of it? What if I told you that, far from being indulgent and unproductive, rest is actually the key to human flourishing?” he writes in The Brain at Rest .

When you disengage from a task, your brain activates what is k

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