One of the most exciting features of Apple's Worldwide Developers
Conference last week was Do Not Disturb, the new iPhone feature designed
to get you off your iPhone altogether.
Do Not Disturb is just one among a growing crop of like-minded apps
that are tapping into the benefits of unplugging and recharging -- a
source of wisdom that many of our most creative minds have long
recognized. Bill Gates, who realized that good ideas come when we shut out distractions, used to take "Think Weeks" -- a week off once or twice
a year in a secluded cabin, in order to read and think. Steve Jobs told
Walter Isaacson that Zen meditation was important for him so he could
still his restless mind and listen, as he put it, to more subtle things,
and "that's when your intuition starts to blossom." John Steinbeck put
it this way: "a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning
after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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