The Virtue of Listening to Music While Mowing the Lawn

"There is nothing wrong morally speaking from listening to a good book while you mow the lawn," he says. "But by bringing in other goods like an audiobook kind of says it, what it ends up doing is saying the good of mowing the lawn is not good enough." There's some truth there that as you're doing your work, you're focused on allowing your mind to also just be distracted,. Yeah. I don't know. Should we do one thing at a time always? Never do more than one thing.

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