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253 In her book Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (New York: Penguin, 2001), 29.
254 the concept of Ma: Isao Tsujimoto, “The Concept of ‘Ma’ in Japanese Life and Culture,” video lecture, Japan NYC from Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, April 27, 2011.
255 “Except for the point”: Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, ed., Twentieth Century Literature in English, Volume 2 (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2000), 56.
256 “Space is substance”: Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways (London: Phaidon, 2001), 370.
257 “Words inscribe a text”: Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), 27.
258 Even the supremely focused Thoreau: Thoreau, “Walking.”
259 Journalist Wayne Curtis: Wayne Curtis, “The Walking Dead,” The Smart Set, August 19, 2013, www.thesmartset.com.
260 He cites a University of Washington study: Leah Thompson, Frederick Rivara, Rajiv Ayyagari, and Beth Ebel, “Impact of Social and Technological Distraction on Pedestrian Crossing Behaviour: An Observational Study,” Injury Prevention 19 (2012): 232–37.
261 Another study found: Eric Lamberg and Lisa Muratori, “Cell Phones Change the Way We Walk,” Gait and Posture 35 (2012): 688–90.
262 As Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman: Oliver Burkeman, “Together We Can Fight the Scourge of Texting While Walking,” The Guardian, October 28, 2013, www.theguardian.com.
263 In December 2013: “Tourist Walks off Australia Pier While Checking Facebook,” BBC News, December 19, 2013, www.bbc.co.uk.
264 According to an Ohio State University: “Distracted Walking: Injuries Soar for Pedestrians on Phones,” Ohio State Research and Communications press release, June 19, 2013, www.researchnews.osu.edu.
265 “I suspect the greatest mental benefits”: Oliver Burkeman, “This Column Will Change Your Life: A Step in the Right Direction,” The Guardian, July 23, 2010, www.theguardian.com.
266 Gregory Berns: Gregory Berns, “Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity,” Fast Company, October 1, 2008, www.fastcompany.com.
267 Allen McConnell, professor of psychology at Miami University: Allen McConnell, “Friends with Benefits: Pets Make Us Happier, Healthier,” Psychology Today, July, 11, 2011, www.psychologytoday.com.
268 In another study: Allen McConnell, Christina Brown, Tony Shoda, Laura Stayton, and Colleen Martin, “Friends with Benefits: On the Positive Consequences of Pet Ownership,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 101 (2011): 1239–52.
269 Interestingly, the studies: McConnell, “Friends with Benefits.”
270 Like spouses and close friends: Ibid.
271 But the benefits of pets: Kathleen Doheny, “Pets for Depression and Health,” WebMD, accessed December 1, 2103, www.webmd.com.
272 reduced risk of heart disease: Glenn N. Levine, Karen Allen, Lynne T. Braun, Hayley E. Christian, Erika Friedmann, Kathryn A. Taubert, Sue Ann Thomas, Deborah L. Wells, and Richard A. Lange, “Pet Ownership and Cardiovascular Risk: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association,” Circulation 127 (2013): 2353–63.
273 lower levels of stress: “Dog’s Best Friend? You!,” Daily Mail, accessed December 1, 2013, www.dailymail.co.uk.
274 decreased for workers: Randolph Barker, Janet Knisely, Sandra Barker, Rachel Cobb, and Christine Schubert, “Preliminary Investigation of Employee’s Dog Presence on Stress and Organizational Perceptions,” International Journal of Workplace Health Management 5 (2012): 15–30.
275 said Randolph Barker: Sathya Abraham, “Benefits of Taking Fido to Work May Not Be Far-Fetched,” VCU Medical Center press release, March 30, 2012, www.news.vcu.edu.
276 Barker also found: Ibid.
277 Today, only 17 percent: Claire Suddath, “The Shaggy, Slobbery World of Pet-Friendly Offices,” Businessweek, June 1, 2012, www.businessweek.com.
278 Google takes it so seriously: “Google Code of Conduct,” Google Investor Relations, last modified April 25, 2012, investor.google.com.
279 After the tragic massacre in Newtown: “Newtown Says Thank You to Therapy Dogs,” The Huffington Post, June 25, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com.
280 Another young girl and a therapy dog: Jane Teeling and Aine Pennello, “Sandy Hook Student, Rescue Dog Bond: ‘She Just Feels Safe,’ ” Today News, August 25, 2013, www.today.com.
281 In her book: On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, Simon & Schuster, accessed December 1, 2013, pages.simonandschuster.com [inactive].
282 “A person can learn”: John Grogan, Marley and Me (New York: William Morrow, 2005), 279.
283 Novelist Jonathan Carroll: “FAQ,” JonathanCarroll.com, accessed November 13, 2013, www.jonathancarroll.com.
284 Peter Whoriskey: Peter Whoriskey, “If You’re Happy and You Know It … Let Your Government Know,” The Washington Post, March 29, 2012, articles.washingtonpost.com.
285 articulated by Robert F. Kennedy in 1968: Robert F. Kennedy, “Remarks at the University of Kansas” (speech, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968), John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, www.jfklibrary.org.
286 In France in 2008: (1) Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, “Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress,” September 14, 2009, www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr [inactive]; (2) Peter Whoriskey, ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It … Let Your Government Know.
287 David Cameron: Allegra Stratton, “David Cameron Aims to Make Happiness a New GDP,” The Guardian, November 14, 2010, www.theguardian.com.
288 Four years later, he announced: Hélène Mulholland and Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron Defends Plans for Wellbeing Index,” The Guardian, November 25, 2010, www.theguardian.com.
289 “Better Life Index”: Irene Chapple, “Survey: Australia the ‘Lucky Country’ for a Better Life,” CNN, May 31, 2013, www.cnn.com.
290 And the United Nations: “Report Calls on Policymakers to Make Happiness a Key Measure and Target of Development,” United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network press release, accessed December 1, 2013, UNSDSN website, www.unsdsn.org.
291 “subjective well-being”: Whoriskey, “If You’re Happy and You Know It … Let the Government Know.”
292 In fact, the idea of measuring our well-being: “No Longer the Dismal Science?” The Economist, April 6, 2012, www.economist.com.
293 In the United Kingdom, for instance: “Personal Well-being Across the UK, 2012/13,” Office of National Statistics, accessed December 1, 2013, www.ons.gov.uk.
294 as some papers trumpeted: Patrick Collinson, “UK Population’s Happiness is on the Up,” The Guardian, July 30, 2013, www.theguardian.com.
295 In 2011, there were: Mark Easton, “The North/South Divide on Antidepressants,” BBC News, August 2, 2012, www.bbc.co.uk.
Wisdom
1 “The endless cycle”: Cleanth Brooks, The Hidden God: Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963), 84.
2 like rats in the famous experiment: B. F. Skinner, The Behavior of Organisms: an Experimental Analysis (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1938).
3 “Puffed up by his”: Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (New York: Continuum, 2004), 330.
4 “Not a single sparrow”: Matt. 10:29, NLT.
5 “Perhaps all the dragons”: Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. Reginald Snell (New York: Start Publishing, 2013), Kindle edition, 623–24.
6 Marcus Aurelius: Jonathan Star, Two Suns Rising: A Collection of Sacred Writings (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), 105.
7 “Resentment is like drinking poison”: Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 153.
8 “all of humanity’s problems”: Blaise Pascal, Pensées (Paris: Société Française d’imprimerie et de Librairie, 1907), 345.
9 write about her struggle: Christina Huffington, “Addiction Recovery: Getting Clean At 22,” The Huffington Post, April 13, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com.
10 “Here’s what no one tells you”: Christina Huffington, “Cocaine Almost Killed Me,” Glamour, September 2013, 290.
11 “The harder we press”: Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (New York: Tarcher, 1991), 64.
12 “intentionally bringing into awareness”: Williams and Penman, Mindfulness, 109.
13 Gratitude exercises have been: Joyne Bono, Theresa Glomb, Winny Shen, Eugene Kim, and Amanda Koch, “Building Positive Resources: Effects of Positive Events and Positive Reflection on Work-Stress and Health,” Academy of Management Journal 56 (2012): 1601.
14 “Grace isn’t something”: John-Roger and Paul Kaye, The Rest of Your Life: Finding Repose in the Beloved (Los Angeles: Mandeville, 2007), Kindle edition, 1983–85.
15 “On a day when”: Daniel Ladinsky, trans., Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (New York: Penguin, 2002), 79.
16 “It is a glorious destiny”: Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 154.
17 “a life oriented around gratefulness”: Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough, eds., The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Kindle edition, 152–73.
18 There had been many warning signs: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Pompeii: Portents of Disaster,” BBC History, March 29, 2011, www.bbc.co.uk.
19 Intuition, not intellect: William Hermans, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (Wellesley, MA: Branden Books, 2013), 17.
20 The third-century philosopher Plotinus: Caroline Spurgeon, Mysticism in English Literature (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 154.
21 Science has confirmed: Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), 3.
22 “It has long been realized”: Martin Seligman and Michael Kahana, “Unpacking Intuition: A Conjecture,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4 (2009): 399–402.
23 Malcolm Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2005), 11.
24 But a few art historians: Ibid., 8.
25 In his book Sources of Power: Gary Klein, Sources of Power, 32.
26 When he asked them how: Ibid., 40.
27 “The longer we wait”: Gary Klein, Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instinct Will Make You Better at What You Do (New York: Doubleday Business, 2002), 35.
28 sleep deprivation lowers: Killgore, Kahn-Greene, Lipizzi, Newman, Kamimori, and Balkin, “Sleep Deprivation Reduces Perceived Emotional Intelligence and Constructive Thinking Skills.”
29 And when we’re sleep deprived: Christopher M. Barnes, John Schaubroeck, Megan Huth, and Sonia Ghumman, “Lack of Sleep and Unethical Conduct,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 115 (2011): 169–80.
30 “Intuition is soul guidance”: Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (Nevada City, CA: Crystal Clarity Publishers, 2003), Kindle edition, 2348–50.
31 “The people in the Indian countryside”: Isaacson, Steve Jobs, 48.
32 It helps us live: Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, trans. Michael Chase (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
33 “You learn to speak”: Jean Pierre Camus, The Spirit of S. Francis de Sales: Bishop and Prince of Geneva (London: Rivingtons, 1880), 3.
34 “People have a pathological”: Matt Richtel, “Silicon Valley Says Step Away from the Device,” The New York Times, July 23, 2012, www.nytimes.com.
35 “What we know from the neuroscience”: Mark Williams, “Stress and Mindfulness,” Mindful, accessed December 1, 2013, www.mindful.org.
36 “cultivates our ability”: Ibid.
37 As Nassim Taleb: Nassim N. Taleb, “Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data,’ ” Wired, February 8, 2013, www.wired.com.
38 “There are many things”: David Brooks, “What Data Can’t Do,” The New York Times, February 18, 2013, www.nytimes.com.
39 Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn: Nancy F. Koehn, “Crisis Leadership: Lessons from Here and Now,” presentation, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, June 28, 2013, www.aspenideas.org.
40 More than three thousand: “What is Distracted Driving?,” Distraction.gov, accessed December 1, 2013, www.distraction.gov.
41 Lori Leibovich: Lori Leibovich, “Mom’s Digital Diet,” The Huffington Post, October 24, 2012, www.huffingtonpost.com.
42 Caroline Knorr from Common Sense Media: (1) Caroline Knorr, “Study Reveals Just How Much Our Kids Love Digital Devices,” The Huffington Post, October 30, 2013, www.commonsensemedia.org;.
43 According to Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman: Rebecca Jackson, “How Changes in Media Habits Could Transform Your Child’s Mental Health,” The Huffington Post, October 9, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com.
44 “the average eight- to ten-year-old”: “Policy Statement: Children, Adolescents, and the Media,” Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics 132 (2013): 959.
45 Louis C.K. has put: Louis C.K., Oh My God: An HBO Comedy Special (2013; Phoenix, AZ: HBO).
46 “The Day I Stopped Saying ‘Hurry Up’ ”: Rachel Macy Stafford, “The Day I Stopped Saying ‘Hurry Up,’ ” The Huffington Post, August 6, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com.
47 “My heart leaps”: William Wordsworth, The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1998), 91.
48 A study led by Lijing L. Yan: Lijing L. Yan, Kiang Liu, Karen A. Matthews, Martha L. Daviglus, T. Freeman Ferguson, and Catarina I. Kiefe, “Psychosocial Factors and Risk of Hypertension: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 290 (2003): 2138–48.
49 As nutrition expert Kathleen M. Zelman says: Kathleen M. Zelman, “Slow Down, You Eat Too Fast,” WebMD, accessed December 1, 2013, www.webmd.com.
50 Even sex is better: Janis Graham, “8 Reasons to Slooow Down,” WebMD, accessed December 10, 2013, www.webmd.com.
51 Research published in the Harvard Business Review: Teresa M. Amabile, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer, “Creativity Under the Gun,” Harvard Business Review, August 2002, www.hbr.org.
52 “Our computers, our movies”: Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Random House, accessed December 1, 2013, www.randomhouse.com.
53 “time famine”: Perlow, “The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time.”
54 “Her heart sat silent”: Christina Rossetti, Selected Poems, ed. C. H. Sisson (New York: Routledge, 2002), 106.
55 As physicist Paul Davies wrote: Paul Davies, “That Mysterious Flow,” Scientific American, September 2002, 42.
56 Studies have shown that: Keith O’Brien, “How to Make Time Expand,” The Boston Globe, September 9, 2012, www.bostonglobe.com.
57 According to a 2011 Gallup poll: Magali Rheault, “In U.S., 3 in 10 Working Adults Are Strapped for Time,” Gallup, July 20, 2011, www.gallup.com.
58 According to a 2008 Pew report: “Free Time: Middle America’s Top Priority,” Pew Research Center, July 9, 2008, www.pewresearch.org.
59 Vatsal Thakkar, a psychiatry professor: Vatsal G. Thakkar, “Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit,” The New York Times, April 27, 2013, www.nytimes.com.
60 “I give it to you”: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 76.
61 As Carl Honoré: Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (New York: HarperOne, 2004), 275.
62 “Scrooge with a stopwatch”: Ibid., 3.
63 “Have I gone”: Ibid.
64 The Slow Food movement: “Our History,” Slow Food International, accessed December 1, 2013, www.slowfood.com.
65 “Slow Thinking is intuitive”: Carl Honoré, “In Praise of Slow Thinking,” The Huffington Post, October 23, 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com.
66 We are not going to eliminate: (1) United States War Department, Henry Martyn Lazelle, and Leslie J. Perry, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), 786. (2) “deadline,” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com.
67 “Everything changed the day”: Brian Andreas, Enough Time (Female), print.
68 During natural disasters: Department of Homeland Security: Science and Technology, “Lessons Learned—Social Media and Hurricane Sandy: Virtual Social Media Working Group,” www.naseo.org.
69 as Eric Schmidt: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), 230.
70 Whether it’s CollegeHumor: Zachary Sniderman, “Do Celebrities Really Help Online Causes?,” Mashable, June 29, 2011, www.mashable.com.
71 “It Gets Better”: Tara Parker-Pope, “Showing Gay Teenagers a Happy Future,” The New York Times, September 22, 2010, well.blogs.nytimes.com.
72 Glen James: Steve Annear, “Fundraiser Started for Homeless Man Who Turned in $40,000, Passport,” Boston Magazine, September 16, 2013, www.bostonmagazine.com.
73 “Nothing is too inconsequential”: Michael Calderone, “GOP Primary Show: Non-Stop News and Noise in the Age of Twitter,” The Huffington Post, February 7, 2012, www.huffingtonpost.com.
74 “We are in great haste”: Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Or Life in the Woods) (Radford, VA: Wilder Publications, 2008), 34.
75 24.1 million tweets: Omid Ashtari, “The Super Tweets of #SB47,” Twitter Blog, February 4, 2013, blog.twitter.com.
76 10,901 tweets: “Twitter Recap: Grammys 2012,” Twitter Blog, February 15, 2012, blog.twitter.com.
