Farmers in Kashmir have always known something that busy professionals forget. Fields need winter.
After the harvest, the land rests under snow. It is not lazy. It is recovering. A field that is never rested eventually gives less and less.
We are the same. We treat rest as something we earn after the work is done. But the work is never done, so we never rest, and slowly we give less and less: less patience, less creativity, less joy.
Rest is not the opposite of productivity. It is what makes good work possible.