About this episode
Anna discusses the importance of intentional rest and how it contrasts with societal views on productivity.
This week’s episode is about how I think I accidentally found the cure for doom-scrolling: doing nothing—on purpose. Lately I’ve been trying to detach from my phone because I realized that constant productivity and comparison are killing my joy. Somewhere along the way, “rest” got rebranded as “laziness,” especially for women, and I’m done with that. So instead of polishing hardware or checking off my to-do list, I’ve been wandering around HomeGoods, calling it meditation. I talk about how the obsession with progress keeps us on the hamster wheel of capitalism, how my dad can go on a 14-hour flight with nothing but his thoughts, and how learning to simply exist—to be gentle, unproductive, and occasionally stupid in the best way, might actually be the most radical kind of self-care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Anna Kai
Topics covered
- laziness
- self-care
- doom-scrolling
- productivity
- capitalism
- rest
Keywords
- laziness
- self-care
- doom-scrolling
- rest
- productivity
- capitalism
- meditation
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