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Mar 10, 2020 · In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem.
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Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.
- What Is Niksen?
- What Are The Potential Benefits of Niksen?
- How Do People Practice Niksen?
- What Are The Possible Downsides of Niksen?
Niksen “literally means to do nothing, to be idle or doing something without any use,” says Carolien Hamming, managing director of CSR Centrum, a coaching center in the Netherlands that helps clients manage stress and recover from burnout. Practicing niksen could be as simple as just hanging around, looking at your surroundings or listening to musi...
In the Netherlands, niksen has historically been dismissed as laziness or as the opposite of being productive, Hamming says. But as stress levels climb in the U.S. and globally and their crushing health impacts, like burnout, are getting more recognition from the medical community, doing nothing is increasingly being framed as a positive, stress-fi...
For many, doing nothing isn’t as simple as it sounds. In fact, it can be somewhat challenging to sit still and stare out a window, for instance. Hamming says it can even feel “quite creepy” at first, when people are used to doing something at all times. She encourages her clients to push through the discomfort, taking a few minutes each day to prac...
Scientific literature suggests that a drawback of letting the mind wander for too long could be getting “caught up in ruminations” rather than feeling refreshed, Ekman says, which may have some physiological effects. In the 2013 study, Pros and Cons of a Wandering Mind, researchers observedparticipants had an increased heart rate for a 24-hour peri...
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- Sophia Gottfried
Dec 9, 2021 · If you're feeling stressed, learn about the power of doing nothing. Health experts say the benefits of simply breathing can help you be stronger, calmer, more creative and more productive.
- Suze Yalof Schwartz
Sep 25, 2021 · CNN: You write that doing niks, or nothing, doesn’t mean working, performing emotional labor or meditating. How does one do nothing?
Apr 29, 2019 · If you’re doing nothing, own it. When someone asks you what you’re doing during a nothing break, simply respond, “Nothing.”
Mar 12, 2020 · In her new book, Do Nothing, Headlee, a longtime journalist and public radio host, encourages readers to be intentional about protecting their downtime. She came to that realization after she...
