I always keep wondering why my indolence doesn’t prevent me from getting so much done and being so productive. A great article I just read has an answer:
Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.
I always feel like I need to conceal from people how much time I spend indulging myself and having fun. I even started to play the busyness game, too.
“I’m SO BUSY!” a colleague would complain.
“Me, too!” I say, trying to look appropriately miserable and exhausted. I feel bad about confessing that I spend hours blogging, reading, walking, cooking, taking baths, etc. and still have a lot of time left over to to get all of the work done.
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When are you idle exactly? You published recently your day plan and you count & plan out every minute of rest (or “idleness”). Reminds of Benjamin Franklin’s day schedule. May be you would love to read his autobiography (I read only several pages) – he really planned how to raise in the world both in economic and moral realms. Interesting what you would think about it.
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Actually, I’m going to go lie down right now. Snoozing and reading is FUN! Highly recommended. 🙂
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Trivia: Filip Kirkorov’s son was born. Now he has 2 kids: a son & a daughter.
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Another surrogate baby?
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Yes.
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Somehow I’m not wildly optimistic for those kids.
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Yesterday I posted a link round-up on a similar topic: the benefits of day-dreaming. The brain really isn’t idle when day-dreaming (or “mind-wandering”) and some of our best ideas and creative solutions can come of it.
The op-ed piece you link to here makes an interesting point that some people might go about being busy because they want to impress upon others that they’re in-demand and also to fill up some kind of emptiness in their lives by packing it with as much activity as possible. From experience I think it can also stem from not being passionate about your work and from not seeing the point in what you do. It takes you longer to get everything done, and every moment you’re at it you feel drained, so you’re both busy and tired.
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Here is the link roundup in question: http://brightacrossthelifespan.com/2012/07/01/synaptic-sunday-5/
I find it fascinating.
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A joke we like to say is, “We live the life of the idle rich, well, idle at least”. 😉
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