961: The Long-Lost Thrill of Doing Nothing by David Cain of Raptitude

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🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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David Cain of Raptitude shares the long-lost thrill of doing.. nothing. Episode 961: The Long-Lost Thrill of Doing Nothing by David Cain of Raptitude (Compulsive Planning & Living Spontaneously Today). David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/08/the-long-lost-thrill-of-doing-nothing Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.6	of doing nothing by David Kane of Raptitude.com and I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator,
1:08.2	reading blogs to you mostly but sometimes books. Anything that I think will help you optimize
1:12.2	your life. Today's post being from David Kane. So let's get right to the post as we optimize
1:17.6	your life.
1:22.8	The long lost thrill of doing nothing by David Kane of Raptitude.com. Many text messages
1:29.6	between my friends and me take roughly this form. Are you busy tomorrow? We should do
1:34.2	something. That's something often isn't defined at the time but when we arrive in each other's
1:38.7	physical presence after we've caught up, eventually one of us has to ask, so what do you
1:43.8	want to do? Then we have to decide. We could go for a walk, go eat, play a board game,
1:50.0	check out what's happening in the city, just chat, or something else. One of my friends
1:55.1	and only one sometimes throws me a curveball here and suggests that we don't do anything,
2:00.5	at least not yet. We can just lounge here in the living room or not quite lounge but just
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