corinna kong.

Have you ever felt guilty of doing nothing?

You think, “I have to be busy. Everyone else is busy. If I am not busy, I probably won’t matter much”.

You probably equate busyness to productivity. Productivity is highly valued in our society. Wouldn’t anyone want to be productive?

You are probably in The Busy Trap.

Tin Kreider, in his article, “The Busy Trap,” he described that our culture has assumed that idleness or doing nothing was a bad thing. But “idleness… is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets.”

It’s a moral decision to stay busy, not a rational one. 

Then, how could we break the cycle of busyness and achieve peak performance? 

We need to rest. Yes, you hear me right. REST. 

So, what’s rest? 

Rest means “cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, or recover...