“BUT BEYOND SELF-CARE and the ability to (really) listen, **the practice of doing nothing has something broader to offer us: an antidote to the rhetoric of growth**. “**In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative**. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.” ([Location 639](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=639)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[joy-of-missing-out]], [[growth]], [[resting]], [[counter-intuitive-thinking]] **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]] Consider, why do we celebrate unchecked growth rather than sustainable cyclical growth? In other fields that would be something to worry about?