Do Nothing: Why This Anti-Productivity Advice from 3000 Years Ago Is Still Relevant Today
8 min readMay 6, 2022
If someone told us to do nothing, most of us would jump for joy. We’d assume it as carte blanche to doomscroll on our devices or mindlessly binge-watch TV shows (even bad ones.) But, doing nothing and focusing on just one thing are two sides of the same coin. It is an art form we can (and need to) learn.
