About This Book
The Brain at Rest (2025) challenges the conventional wisdom that constant productivity is the key to success, revealing how letting your mind wander can actually make you more creative and less stressed. This science-backed guide offers a refreshing antidote to our culture of overwork, showing how rest activates the brain’s default network and can lead to greater contentment and improved mental performance.
Who Should Read This?
- Overworked professionals who want to develop a better work-life balance
- Creatives looking to sharpen their idea-generation skills
- Anyone interested in the neuroscience of cognition, creativity, and rest
About the Author
Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist who earned his PhD from University College London and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington. He’s the author of several acclaimed works including How the Mind Changed and In Pursuit of Memory, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
