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doing_nothing [2013-07-10 13:28] – nikdoing_nothing [2014-02-19 01:28] – [Working Less] maja
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 A 3 minute breathing pause (in dutch): http://www.georgelangenberg.com/2011/12/drie-minuten-ademruimte/ A 3 minute breathing pause (in dutch): http://www.georgelangenberg.com/2011/12/drie-minuten-ademruimte/
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 +A talk from Medium about a [[https://medium.com/business-management/df4b03f67d69|Mindful Workplace]]
  
 === Karma Yoga === === Karma Yoga ===
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-==== Nothingists / Nichevoki (1920) ====+==== Nothingists / Ничевоки (1920) ====
  
  
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   Say nothing!   Say nothing!
   Print nothing!   Print nothing!
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 +==== Working Less ====
 +  * http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/working-hours
 +  * http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki
 +  * http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-the-9-to-5-day-is-so-tough-on-creative-workers/282331/
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 +
 +==== Fishing ====
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 +  * go fishing. if fishing is too stressful, go fishing without hooks...
 +
 +==== Idlers Ideas ====
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 +  * a nice trio: [[http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Nothing-History-Loungers-Slackers/dp/B005M4JCH6|Doing Nothing]], How to Be Idle, The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great 
 +  * [[http://vooruit.be/en/magazine/detail/52/Andrew_Simms_opende_Transitiefestival_met_hoopvolle_boodschap|Andrew Simms]] is een pleitbezorger van de kortere werkweek. Hij stelt een radicale herverdeling van arbeid voorop (een 4-daagse werkweek i.p.v. 5-daagse) en heeft ook een tip voor een bezigheid op de 5de dag: ga (weer) tuinieren
 +   * Braakliggen - zie fragment uit [[http://www.bol.com/nl/p/verre-velden/9200000009906080/|Verre velden]], Ton Lemaire
 +   * European Citizen's initiative for an [[http://basicincome2013.eu/|Unconditional Basic Income]]
 +   * [[http://www.apache.be/2013/05/21/werkloosheid-als-ziekte/?fb_action_ids=10151597325159588&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582|Werklozen hoeven zich nergens schuldig over te voelen]]. En al helemaal niet ziek. Ze kunnen de tijd nemen om bij te leren over onderwerpen zonder enige marktwaarde of voor bezigheden waar niemand hen ooit voor zou willen betalen.
 +  * In 1568 stierf Montaignes vader en werd Michel kasteelheer. Op dat kasteel trok hij zich drie jaar later, in 1571, met zijn gezin, terug uit het politieke leven en de rechterlijke macht, om er te gaan lezen in de talloze boeken die hij van zijn vriend Étienne de La Boétie geërfd had. Hij was toen 37 jaar oud. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essais
 +  *  in june 2000 elisabeth schimana and markus seidl started with the following mission: "a farming village in upper austria is sought, whose inhabitants are ready to discuss the following questions with us: what does comfort mean? is it comfortable to do nothing? what does it mean to do nothing? who is allowed to do what about doing nothing? the results form seven days of doing nothing. http://www.nichtstun.org/index.html
 +  * http://tim-parks.com/non-fiction/teach-us-to-sit-still/
 +  * Radio Passive
 +  * no-grow zone
 +  
 +==== Homage to Idleness ====
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +Over the centuries, the illusion of mastering time through obedience to it came into acceptance. Across Europe, the medieval monastery’s bell tolled as a reminder to eat, sleep and pray. But while there must have been some soul’s release in relinquishing earthly sovereignty to that sound, as the clock’s authority spread, we sealed all the gaps through which curiosity might seep into our days. Curiosity, after all, could lure the susceptible way off track, as the Italian poet Petrarch learned in the spring of 1336, when he famously climbed Mont Ventoux, motivated by “nothing but the desire to see its conspicuous height.” One of the texts he carried along was Saint Augustine’s “Confessions,” detailing the moral dangers of such expeditions, when men “go out to admire the mountains,” or the course of the stars, and therein forget themselves. Chastened, Petrarch made his descent in silence.
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 +Only the Enlightenment redeemed our penchant to while away the hours in wonder. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes called curiosity the “singular passion” separating humans from animals. Even better, it was “a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.” What pleasure we might know by letting curiosity have its way with us for an hour or two. 
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 +http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/opinion/homage-to-the-idols-of-idleness.html?ref=international&_r=2&_r=2&
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 +</blockquote>   
 +
 +
 +==== Doing nothing experiences ====
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 +
 +<blockquote>  
 +"Sometimes out here in nature you have days when its very quiet you know.. An you get these moments out in the forest when nothing makes any sound, when nothing moves, not even a leaf of grass. These are moments.. its really kind of weird you know.. when just for a moment you start to doubt if time has stopped. You get this weird feeling that you are trapped in.. in something like  photograph." Linas Ramanauskas of Nida Art Colony
 +</blockquote>
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 +<blockquote>
 +"After a week of Vipasana we'd been sitting inside meditating all the time. On the last day I went out behind the conference centre into the garden. And after that meditating the birds in the garden just hipped past me really close. They weren't scared at all." Cocky
 +</blockquote>
  
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