Idle bodies, idle minds: Creativity comes from engaging with physical world

I find that Wozniak's point about the active pursuit by ordinary people of the creative arts and sports not being common among upper class Indians is absolutely true for me, says the author

America’s third president Thomas Jefferson lived in a home he had designed himself in his 20s. Named Monticello, it was neo-classical in design, with a pediment (that triangle shape you see above the columns in buildings like the Parthenon) and a rotunda, a dome, which would not have been easy to design or construct.
 
Jefferson’s morning ritual was to go outside and record the atmospheric pressure on his barometer. He was a wealthy man (being the owner of a plantation) and did not need to work, given that he possessed several slaves. So this activity of his presumably sprang