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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Slowing Down

Thoreau was a great advocate of manual work and the power of working with your hands. He's also suspicious of technology, of what time-saving technology deprives us of. Can we take pleasure from inefficient work sometimes? I think that it's still a question we should be asking ourselves today.

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