Maybe it’s our age, but chriscurnow.com feels he needs more time to
\nbe idle.<\/p>\n
Don’t get us wrong. We don’t ever want to stop working. We have an
\nambition to be still working into our 80s. However we want to do a different
\ntype of work.<\/p>\n
Sitting and thinking can be work. We love writing and we love sharing
\nwhat little wisdom we have picked up with others in workshops, consulting
\nand coaching. To do all that with any sort of accomplishment we need
\nto be profoundly self aware. To be self aware, we need idle time. Time
\nthat is not taken up fulfilling deadlines, working late and not taking
\nthe dog for a w-a-l-k. Idle time that is spent in reflection. Thinking
\nabout why we do what we do. Idle time to talk, really talk, with others
\nwho know us or who have ideas that may spark new ideas for us.<\/p>\n
Sounds like the traditional ancient concept of university.<\/p>\n
This profound thinking was prompted by comments by our co-bloggers We don’t know how serious Maier is but she taps into "common knowledge" There is definitely a serious side to laziness. We once remarked to We wonder just how effective our CEOs could be if they worked a little Maybe it’s our age, but chriscurnow.com feels he needs more time to be idle. Don’t get us wrong. We don’t ever want to stop working. We have an ambition to be still working into our 80s. However we want to do a different type of work. Sitting and thinking can be work. We love writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBleeding Edge<\/a> and
\nLeon Gettler<\/a> on the French book Bonjour Paresse (roughly "Hello
\nLaziness") by Corrine Maier which has just been
\ntranslated into English<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nthat all managers are useless, you may as well do as little work as
\npossible and what work you do do should be disguised laziness.<\/p>\n
\na colleague in a well known consulting firm that we were frustrated
\nthat we were not getting time to reflect. "Oh there’s never time
\nfor reflection." he replied. We privately lamented the quality
\nof management advice most likely being given around the world by consultants
\nwho do not have time to reflect.<\/p>\n
\nless and idled a little more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"