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title: "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy"
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# How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

**Brand:** jenny odell
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Why and how you should regain your attention from our out of control society
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019*

It seems like some of the negative reviews have an agenda to push, especially the one that only quotes from the first and last paragraphs of the book.  I would guess that person did not even read the book.  I enjoyed the thoughts from the author.  It made me think of things differently.  I appreciated the argument about valuing things that aren’t valued in money or measured in the economy.  It argues that we need time to process our thoughts and not just thoughtlessly react to social media posts.  It argues we need the ability to direct our conversations differently to different audiences rather than the one size fits all post of Facebook.  It argues to get to know your neighborhood and local place.  If you are sick of the continued outrage machines we have created in our national discussions, you may wish to read this.  It is true the author is viewing life from inside a San Francisco cultural bubble but I still found resonance with main points while living in the Midwest U.S.

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    I would prefer not to.
  

*by D***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2019*

Not a self-help guide, but rather a fascinating collection of essays that critique the modern  “attention economy,” where our time and attention is deemed useless if not spent in the pursuit of profit and “progress.” Odell deftly weaves historical, literary, and artistic references together (from Diogenes to Herman Melville to Tehching Hsieh) and covers a whole lot of ground in a book that in a lesser author’s hand could seem inconsistent. Instead, it’s like having a meandering conversation with a brilliant friend.If you’re looking for a digital detox guide, go elsewhere (though she does spend time dismantling the very concept). If a capitalist critique (by a woman in academia, no less) gets your knickers in a twist, avoid. If you want some genuine inspiration as to how to exist, resist, and survive in the world as it is today, you won’t be disappointed.

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    Liberal codswollop
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019*

Zen master Dogen - perhaps "doing nothing's" greatest champion - once said that to study Zen is to study the self; to study the self is to forget the self; to forget the self is to become one with the ten thousand thing."  Ms. Odell seems incapable of the second directive.  So much of "doing nothing", of real retreat, is characterized not by a separation of ourselves from the red dust of the world but rather from our own mental patterning.  While Ms' Odell's book has some very interesting and helpful passages on physical removal, the vast majority of its pages suffers from interminable leftist screeds and neo-Marxist platitudes that Odell seems incapable or unwilling to put down.  She is able to drop her phone, but not the ideas that keep her equally enthralled.  Doing nothing, for Odell, seems little more than a way to rally the one's mental energies so as to mount a quixotic challenge against the patriarchy and all of the oppressive "isms" that are keeping us from our post capitalistic utopia.For those truly interesting in learning how to do nothing, learn to pray, find a meditation teacher, or take a walk in the woods.  Either will leave you recharged, open to new ideas, and feeling timeless and free.  Sadly, Ms. Odell's book will leave you more tightly bound to the tyranny of our divisive age.  The real practice of doing nothing is that of forgetting.  It gives us the space to remember who we were before we knew.

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