![]() ![]() She comes to the subject of time from a very different perspective than our guest on Monday, Ashley Willans. In her work, she is challenging what for many of us, myself included, is a deep-seated and sometimes subconscious reflex: to constantly optimize and constantly be “productive.” She is a Lecturer in the Stanford Department of Art and Art History and author of the bestseller How to Do Nothing, which just came out in paperback. ![]() Enter Jenny Odell, who makes a very compelling case for truly… doing… nothing. In which case, sitting on the cushion can be very far from truly doing nothing. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to approach meditation with an agenda. For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn’t be foreign. ![]()
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