NOT WORKING: WHY WE HAVE TO STOP

In a culture that tacitly coerces us into blind activity, the art of doing nothing is disappearing. Inactivity can induce lethargy and indifference but is also a condition of imaginative freedom and creativity. Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, and considers four faces of inertia - the burnout, the slob, the daydreamer, and the slacker. Cohen gets to the heart of the apathy so many of us feel and asks how we might live a different and more fulfilled existence.