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Month: October 2013

My New TED Talk: In Praise of Idleness

By Neel Burton | October 25, 2013

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

—Oscar Wilde

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Posted in Philosophy, Psychiatry/psychology and tagged as idleness, manic defence, tedtalks. 3 Comments
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