In praise of 'mindlessness' - escaping self
Forget mindfulness: embrace not thinking about anything in particular at all
In my book, In Praise of Walking (2019), I make a passing comment on the benefits of ‘mindlessness’, contrasting it with ‘mindfulness’. I want to elaborate that argument a bit here.
Mindfulness vs mindlessness
First - what are we talking about here? Mindfulness is a phrase that is everywhere at the moment - a reasonable sense of the phrase is that mindfu…
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