I used to feel guilty on the days I couldn't point to anything I'd 'done.'

But some of my most important processing happened while I was staring out a window, or lying on the floor, or doing absolutely nothing visible. 1/2

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Rest isn't the absence of productivity. Sometimes it is the work. Not all activity is productive, and not all productivity is active.
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It's happened so many times--that a solution to a tough problem came to me while going to sleep, just waking up, or trying to take a nap--that sometimes I'll go lie down on purpose for it, and many times it worked.