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The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams.
Tom Hodgkinson
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Tom Hodgkinson
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
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My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
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Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
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Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.
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Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
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If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
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Alongside my no email policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.
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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.
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Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
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Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.
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Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
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When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
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What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.
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Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
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We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
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Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.
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