Can you do nothing for two minutes?
Absolutely nothing?
Let’s test that, shall we? Click on this link donothingfor2minutes.com then come back here when you’ve done it. (It’s not rude or scary.)
We’ll wait…
So, how did you do? (Five people in the office tried it just now, and four of them failed. ‘That’s impossible,’ says Rosamund. Two minutes of doing nothing shouldn’t be that tricky, but it is. The founder, Alex Tew, also founder of the Million Dollar Homepage, says he created the site as a ‘kind of call to non-action’, as an antidote to twitchy fingers and wandering minds that seem to be side effects of Facebook, Twitter, etc. We’re still discovering how the internet might affect us, but even this tiny experiment is pretty interesting. Get your friends to do it and see how they do. Do you think you would have found it easier to do nothing 10 years ago?
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