Do nothing

The couple months after quitting my job, I was spending a ton of time wandering around NYC parks, processing the big changes of both leaving my job & that my wife was unexpectedly pregnant (more on those changes here: 10.1.2024)

For some reason I decided to sit down on a park bench, set a timer for 30 minutes on my watch, and did nothing at all. I wasn’t aware this was a form of meditation until way later, but the description here matches exactly what I was doing: youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6…

“Let whatever happens, happen. As soon as you’re aware of an intention to control your attention – drop that intention.”

I kept doing this for 30 mins at a time in many different parks across NYC and across our subsequent moves to Northern Virginia & LA

One time I recall I decided to wake up and do absolutely nothing for 4 hours. I went outside after and had one of the most psychedelic walks of my life, comparable to taking shrooms

Nowadays I play around with 15m to an hour of do-nothing while drinking my coffee in the morning