and even more productive, which proved to be true
Psychological and physiological studies suggest
that doing nothing tunes down the nervous system,
acts as anti-stress, sharpens the senses, and raises
one’s awareness of one’s own body and its tensions.
Idleness is also essential to help you listen to the
messages of your heart and soul, which often get
drowned out in the roar of mental machinery.
They documented the outcome in an online project:
www.40daysofdoingnothing.com
ABCs of Doing Nothing.
“We need exemplary mass-trust in ‘nothing‘, rendering
it socially acceptable,” say Herwig Kopp and Norbert
Trompeter. “Just as the siesta was introduced into
Japanese companies because napping after lunch was
making employees happier and more productive.”
being, you can start with three simple steps:
With their research they want to infect as many
people as possible with constructive idleness, taking
horror vacui) which haunts
our times like a ghost. To this end, they have declared
2. go to a certain place. It can be a park, river, or
lakeside: ideally a quiet place even if y