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If you clear up 3 days next week. During those 3 days you are to do nothing.

Could you do it?

I will catch up on my reading. > Nope. I will get better at meditating > Nope I will try that new recipe and so if it's better than > Nope I will just clean the living room > Nope.

Doing nothing is not the same as having free time that you fill with whatever suits you.

Try just taking 12 hours and do nothing.

No internet/tv/book/gym/running/texts/ No hanging with your mates and chatting

Just do nothing.

I think it is difficult. Quite difficult.



I've been doing it most of my life! Oh, if only I didn't have ADHD I could understand you.

Everything you listed is difficult. Quite difficult. Doing nothing is the default.

Get out of bed > Nope.

Eat food > Nope.

Go outside > Nope.

Interact with other humans > Nope.


As a fellow ADHD person I relate to this so hard. Today I literally did nothing for about three hours. I stared at a tree. Actually not even a tree. A particular leaf.


I mean it depends on where you draw the line between something and nothing right? If you take it to the extreme, then the only way of doing nothing is to not even exist.


you should read bartleby the scrivener by melville.


great book




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