the great irony is that the more we demand our brains to attend to being productive, the less our brains are able to grow us as persons in key areas of identity construction and empathy. This doesn’t even address the more widely known contention that sometimes it is only when “nothing is happening” that something actually can happen. Sometimes it is only in our repose or cessation of activity that we actually come to realize solutions to puzzles that have stumped us or experience joys that we had been running too fast to even receive.
