Learning to waste time well

Creativity needs the space to incubate — and nothing supplies that space quite as well as doing nothing.

Albert Einstein once described creativity as “the residue of wasted time,” and I like to think he meant that in a good way.

A couple weeks ago, as I was drudgingly parading my belongings past a TSA agent at Denver International Airport, it occurred to me that this particularly life-sucking activity probably wasn’t the sort of “wasted time” Einstein was t…