oh? me lo ricordavo male in tutti questi anni? il bel sentimento è ancora vero.

Native speaker here.

Si dice "Il dolce far niente".

The way you wrote it roughly translates to "Doing nothing sweet".

But you're right, it's a common saying.

I'm not sure if I'm burnt out or productively doing nothing.

Welp. I’m killing it.

I think the study of philosophy, if done intelligently, in indistinguishable from its practice. If you study a philosopher and his or her thoughts, and draw your own conclusion from those thoughts rather than taking them at face value, then are you not practicing philosophy?

Be prepared for the people thinking you are lazy or unmotivated or insert whatever consumer driven drivel here. It was crazy when I took a step back from IT burnout how all of a sudden I was viewed much differently in the eyes of some.

I hope you enjoy your new found freedom.

While there is nothing wrong with Resting, I disagree with the rest, because doing nothing is literally impossible. People are breathing, their hearts are pumping, their blood is flowing, the electrical signals from your brains are bringing you new information to process all the time. There is NO benefit to doing nothing, because as soon as you've decided to do nothing, you become what you've decided to be.

I think it’s also worth noting that philosophy, in a sense, is inherently un-scientific. Abstract concepts do not lend themselves to objective quantification and therefore cannot be measured in a way that fits the scientific method, at least in my opinion.

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Find a job that requires minimum effort that pays enough to have an easy life. I already have that, but find doing nothing boring yet doing anything feels pointless as well. It's quite the daily struggle for me.

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Byung Chul Han's auto-exploitation comes to mind and his concept of the burnout society.

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Sometimes I am a human Being. Sometimes I am a human Doing. And sometimes I am a human Waiting. All of those things are reasonable and important

Procrastination is likely my life ... but it's true on the subject of energy, too much negating leaves also some marks and leads to lose the "maximal energy capacity" I think. But I know for my self that there are so much things I can do whiteout the felling of draining him self, it's likely the opposite. Like a temporary boost in the capacity and endurance but it also has it's downside by faster loosing the focus on "why" we do this.

(I'm just sharing my past experiences but it's also it's mostly true to others) (Sorry for some leaps on my side but I wouldn't stretch this too much)

Are you suggesting that the contributions of Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and so forth are all just science of philosophy? Do you intend, further, that there is otherwise nothing new in philosophy since Aristotle?

Could an argument be made? Yes, you can make an argument for almost anything.

Could a good argument be made? I doubt it.

I would be interested in the argument if you can make it. You might start with explaining what you mean by "science of philosophy." To me that is a very vague phrase.

I want to be the person who doesn't sit around doing nothing all the time. That having been said, I live my life in those brief moments of "doing something" that exist between working, sleeping and waiting for a chance to go out and do something. I end up "preparing" to do something a few hours a week, "putting things away" a couple of hours a week, and traveling to the place (and coming home from) where I'm going to be able to "do something" several hours a week.

The actual "doing something" might be a couple of hours, might be as much as a couple of days." I figure, on average, two real events a month, of a handful of hours, each. Out of over 700 hours in a month, I'm not "doing something" a large percentage of the time.

But, those are really the only hours I remember.

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I was travelling through Italy in my 20's and in Genoa I learned the phrase, 'Il far di niente dolce'. The Sweetness of Doing Nothing.

I’m still recovering from a major injury myself, and I couldn’t agree more. I’m at the stage of my recovery where I’m able to start working again to some degree which is great, but trying to navigate my realigned priorities is a challenge I did not have on my radar initially.

Glad you’re still with us ❤️

I wouldn’t consider this essay to be a debate of whether philosophy or literature is better.

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