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Idleism
Not to be confused with “idealism.” Not everything needs to be productive. Life happens in the idle margins, margins that are shrinking by the day.
David Pennington • 36 cards
work
Franco Passeggi • 2 cards
The greatest accomplishment of a human, a busy primate, is to be able to spend hours and hours without doing anything.
Vizi Andrei • The Sovereign Artist
Living
Chiara Leigh • 2 cards
In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth. From this perspective, idleness isn’t merely forgivable; it’s practically an obligation.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a “symptom of deficient vitality,” and observed “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.”
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
on life
Marty Bell • 38 cards
Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.