When you are riding on a Metro in any major city, and you look around you, you see pretty much everyone is on their phone.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether this new way of being, this need for constant external stimulation, is coming at a cost.<\/p>\n
There was a time, not that long ago, when people were perfectly capable of spending 20 minutes doing absolutely nothing. This is only a theory, but I suspect that that may have had mental health benefits.<\/p>\n
Being able to simply slow down and reflect, and be in your own thoughts, is probably good for you. The simple capacity to do nothing.<\/p>\n
I am concerned that as a society we are losing this capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you are riding on a Metro in any major city, and you look around you, you see pretty much everyone is on their phone. I wonder whether this new way of being, this need for constant external stimulation, is coming at a cost. There was a time, not that long ago, when people were … Continue reading “Doing nothing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26735,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions\/26735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}