| ▲ | savolai 2 hours ago |
| Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated. The text does not, for instance, encourage not having a job. It also does not encourage being nothing at all. Being nothing special is quite different. Recommended movie: perfect days
https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60 |
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| ▲ | sharmajai an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Thanks for the movie suggestion, looks very interesting, will check it out. Also, the Pixar movie Soul has a similar message. |
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| ▲ | detourdog 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Another cultural reference to this idea is the song Heaven by Talking Heads. Nothing ever happens. |
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| ▲ | kulahan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > do nothing after work. why do you have to do something after work? do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to. Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Our bodies are always aiming to relax, because conserving calories is an extremely effective survival method. We are hardwired to do nothing, in order to escape the burden of instead doing something. |
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| ▲ | BeetleB an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. This word keeps coming up, coupled with things unrelated. The OP isn't saying "do nothing". He's saying "do what you want to do". If he wants to study mathematics, that's neither escapism nor "doing nothing". | | |
| ▲ | kulahan an hour ago | parent [-] | | The extreme majority of people don’t have some secret massive project they want to do and are weirdly choosing not to. There’s only one way to interpret this. | | |
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| ▲ | toomanyrichies an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Gregor: It would be nice to do something. Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting. "Ronin", 1998 | | | |
| ▲ | marssaxman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Your body is, maybe, but we're not all the same. Making my body sit still and do nothing requires sustained, focused attention; action is the comfort state, and idleness the burden. | |
| ▲ | catuscubitus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Call that conserving energy. Contrary to commonly-held belief, calories are a very ambiguous concept. | |
| ▲ | jknoepfler 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or maybe people like to stare at the clouds while herding sheep. This is just bro-science half-baked evolutionary psychology bullshit. Personally I enjoy listening to the birds with a book in my hands. |
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| ▲ | phoghed 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Not sure at all you actually read the piece. On my HN!? Surprised pikachu |
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| ▲ | orphereus an hour ago | parent [-] | | Don't be patronising. I am pretty sure he has read the article because I agree with him, and I have read the article as well. Surprised pikachu :OOOO | | |
| ▲ | phoghed an hour ago | parent [-] | | You agree with him? Even the boomer coded armchair psychology? My comment isn’t even in the same realm of patronizing as that. |
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