Nixon presents a thoughtful framework that blends movement, reflection, and rest to support creativity and resilience. The ideas are solid and well-described—though they may feel like common sense or a bit idealistic for those without much control over their workday. Still, it’s a refreshing nudge to pause, feel, and lead with intention.

Dr. Nixon provides an essential blueprint for strengthening your greatest workplace asset: mental health and personal growth. With practical wisdom and timely guidance, this work equips readers to build lasting career resilience.

"Move. Think. Rest." is an interesting look at how hustle culture leads to burnout and that "pushing through" rarely leads to the accomplishment we are pushing towards -- or, if we do hit the target, it often comes at a cost to our minds and bodies. The author's MTR Framework encourages us to add more movement and rest into our days, to spark creativity and restore ourselves for better thinking. I think we all instinctively know this but it is helpful to be reminded that rest is not optional and that we need to, at least, honor our bodies' circadian rhythms.

This book offers a helpful introduction to the importance of rest, especially for readers who might not be familiar with the topic. While there is a lot of scientific information packed in, I found some sections a bit repetitive and the writing style felt uneven at times. The tone sometimes shifts in ways that made it hard for me to connect with the author’s voice.

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I like this book for someone who isn't familiar with the benefits of rest. As someone who knows the fundamentals and has been practicing a sort of Move, Think, Rest life for years it served as a reminder to me. A little jam-packed with the science but a beneficial book.

firstly, i do kindly thank netgalley, grand central publishing and the author for this advance copy of this book.

it is set to be published september 2, 2025.

maybe i misunderstood the book or the goal but what i found was really just a book i don’t care for. i expected a forward minded book about staying productive, maintaining self care and how to comingle the two. what i found really didn’t give that for me.

it’s written very off and mechanically. i can see what the author is intending and even notes with how they use AI to offload some things. while this isn’t my favorite thing, i was willing to listen but as i read more of the book, some terms and phrases started sticking out to me as perhaps enhanced with AI or written with it. i of course cannot say for sure but this is the level of mechanical nature the book is written in. though i think the voice changes in major ways throughout, this is why i theorize or feel in my opinion like some of it was heavily polished with AI. there is some human written elements and u feel like the whole book gives a sense of vertigo because i never really find its voice. while i understand this is promoting a system, i still really struggled through a lot of this. it felt like reading a car manual. it lacked a level of human nuance i would like to read in a book. i think at the least something happened on the writing that left the book feeling just off. i really can’t express this more or enough, it simply was dry and strangely written with verbiage that rings odd to chose. the book goes from highly serious talk to referring to something as “weeny” in another paragraph.

at the end i glanced through the notes and attributions and was less then enthused to see tony robbin’s. while this is not the authors direct work, i would not support anything that man touches. this end note was enough for me to cement a heavy dislike of this book as a whole.

This was a slightly repetitive but ultimately still very helpful text—I appreciated the reminders to fuel my productivity through methods other than "powering through", and I imagine the suggestions for organizations could generate real and meaningful change. Would recommend!