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Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen
Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen | Maartje Willems
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"The best thing about niksen is the absence of a goal. It doesn't serve a purpose, but it's wonderful." Don't you think it's time for a break? Plagued--as we are!--by nonstop pings and notifications, we have lost the knack of zoning out. Kicking back. Slacking off. Even when pandemic-induced lockdowns forcibly cleared our calendars, many who thought I'm free! filled their days with Netflix and doomscrolling. How can we reclaim our free time (planned or not) to truly rest and reset? The Dutch have it figured out: with niksen. Perhaps their best-kept lifestyle secret, niksen is the art of doing, well, nothing. It's the opposite of productivity, and it's incredibly good for your . . . MIND--it makes you calmer.BODY--it offers rest on hectic days.CREATIVITY--it clears a space for brilliant ideas. WALLET--it's free! If you're waiting for an invitation to go lie down in the sunshine, this book is it.
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Fortifiedbybooks
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Mehso-so

This was my #BookSpin for March. It was good, but I felt like a lot of the points the author's were trying to make didn't go deep enough. This whole book could have been a YouTube video. There were some funny bits of trivia, though. #2025OffMyShelf

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Fortifiedbybooks
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“It means that if we want silence, we must actively seek it out, for instance by taking vacations without cell phones...“
After getting a bunch of non-urgent work-related texts, I found out how to temporarily block specific phone numbers while still getting texts & calls from people I actually want to talk to while I'm on vacation. I even set it up to auto activate on the weekends! Just because I have a phone, doesn't mean I'm accessible 24/7!

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Fortifiedbybooks
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My #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin look like the perfect books for me to read this month.

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IndoorDame
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Bailedbailed

Even after more years with ME/CFS than I‘d like to count I still find truly doing nothing extremely difficult. I was hoping this would focus on why that is and how to subvert our desire to be constantly engaged or distracted, but with the addition of the word Dutch thrown in a lot this says exactly what every pop psych article online does about slowing down and letting your mind drift, so I only managed to skim half of it before I bailed.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 1y
AnnR Great tagline! 👍📚 1y
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