The Benefits of Idleness

It’s time to move past the stigma attached to laziness, to wool-gathering and staring out the window.

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[Originally published in 2014 on stoweboyd.com]

Americans have a well-known obsession with productivity. In recent research, I am involved in we found that personal productivity is the highest aspiration in the use of work technologies. But perhaps this focus is not necessarily the best for us with regard to other aspects of l…