The wisdom of sloths

THE SURPRISING IMPORTANCE OF IDLENESS IN DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE STRATEGY

This talk works well at the end of a busy conference when people have spent a long time absorbing lots of complex information. This is a pleasant change of pace as Nigel makes a gentle pitch for the importance of idleness. Sloths wouldn't normally be the go to animal we think about when we're trying to turn our tired minds towards implementing all this newly acquired knowledge, but maybe they should be? If there is any creature on earth that understands the enormous importance of pacing oneself, it is the sloth. In this entertaining talk Nigel how shows how our brains sometimes work best when we embrace the wisdom of creatures who’ve built a life around doing nothing. Sometimes, it turns out, we do our best work when we do nothing at all.