The Secret Energy Source for Writers, Politicians and Geniuses

The art of napping is not just for toddlers or languid house cats stretched out in patches of sun. Oh no, some of the most esteemed minds in history have sworn by the humble midday snooze as a critical component of productivity and, perhaps, even planetary defence. Churchill Was a Napper Winston Churchill, for instance, made napping into something of a private Olympic event. A mere 20 minutes was all he needed to split his day in half, effectively getting “two days in one” and thus neatly solving the perpetual problem of there only being 24 hours in a day. Churchill, naturally, didn’t think of himself as a mere mortal subjected to the tyranny of time and instead treated it as an amiable nuisance to be nudged, rearranged, or if necessary, shouted down....