In a world where everything goes too fast and where performance is the watchword, doing nothing is a precious quality.
Because doing nothing, it's not really doing anything!
Watching series, walking quietly, contemplating nature ... What you often hear by "doing nothing" is doing nothing useful.
But doing nothing at all is different, and doing it for a few moments makes it possible to be simply with oneself, to feel, to calm down, to realize that there may be a need Which is not satisfied, an unsolved problem ...
For when one does nothing, the brain does not do anything! On the contrary, it stores, assimilates, makes hypotheses, links between information.
It's no coincidence that most great ideas happen when you're not working ...
Why does nothing do us good?
On a oublié ce que voulait dire « ne rien faire ».
Dès qu’on a un moment de « vide », on met le nez dans notre smartphone, on va sur internet, on prend un magazine. On écoute de la musique en marchant, on regarde la télé pour s’endormir…
Tous nos instants sont occupés par quelque chose, comme si ne pas avoir quelque chose à faire nous effrayait. Nos esprits sont occupés en permanence et on ne prend pas le temps de se poser !
Pourtant, ces moments rares sont précieux, il faut en profiter.
Why does nothing do us good?
Because it's good for your health.
A study [1] showed that people who work more than 55 hours a week have a 33% chance of having a heart attack compared with those working between 35 and 40 hours.
Another 50-year study [2] published in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that working 10 hours a day increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 80%!
This shows that being always busy with something is damaging to our health.
Why does nothing do us good?
Because doing nothing means improving performance
A Latvian study by the company Draugiem group (to test a new application) showed that the 10% most productive employees are those who work an average of 52 minutes in a row (without being distracted) before To take a break of 17 minutes.
On the other hand, K. Anders Ericsson, professor of psychology at the University of Florida, showed in a study in Berlin that the most brilliant musicians practiced on average only 90 minutes a day and made more naps than the others.
In fact, doing nothing, taking breaks, is necessary to recharge the batteries, help us to face a problem, find solutions and be more creative.