These excerpts from the The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb resonated with me and I think it applies here. “You will be civilized on the day you can spend a

These excerpts from the The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb resonated with me and I think it applies here. “You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.” “They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically smooth boxes.” Make it easy to start, just try doing nothing for a while, it’s uncomfortable at first but the reset comes soon enough and is quite rewarding. The bed of procrustes as a whole is also quite thought provoking and I would recommend checking it out.