When I was in school I was told that I had an issue with authority. I was disruptive in classes, would constantly daydream or drift off from my studies and I reacted poorly to people telling me what to do. When I was a child who had ADHD and didn’t understand autism as much, it…
Have you ever heard the phrase, “too much of a good thing”? You probably have and Smart probably has too, but that doesn’t mean he kept it in mind all of the time. The tidbits about neuroscience when they matched up with the benefits of slacking were interesting and well said. Likewise, Smart’s interest in…
A friend of mine linked from a site called The Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Everybody and specifically an article entitled “You Do Not Exist to Be Used:” Dismantling Ideas of Productivity in Life Purpose, by Gillian Giles. All of these are fairly click-bait-eque titles with your usual social justice…
One of my fondest memories of working at Kohl’s was when I purposefully went slow on a particular night. We were doing the usual drudgery of taking clothes off a container and putting them in them in the appropriate place. This was fairly mindless, uninteresting, repetitive and frankly, insulting work that I generally disliked. It…