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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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Idleness and Laziness

i believe deeply in idleness and laziness. Idleness is not the same as laziness. There's a real art to idleness. But there are several great writers who wrote about doing nothing. i just think that's the culture. I mean, it's its capitalism, but it's also this sort of modern, you know, what are you doing for the systemlike, how do you contributea type thing i have had.

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