I was thinking recently about how difficult it has become to do absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing. Not watching television. Not listening to a podcast. Not scrolling through your phone while supposedly watching television. Not answering emails. Not mentally writing tomorrow's to-do list. Just sitting. Doing nothing. Even writing that feels slightly uncomfortable. Because somewhere along the way, doing nothing seems to have become something we're not very good at. We don't really wait...

Why Do I Shut Down When Things Get Too Much? Have you ever been in the middle of a difficult conversation and suddenly found that you have nothing to say? Not because you don't care. Not because you don't have thoughts or feelings about what's happening. In fact, quite often it's the opposite. There's too much happening. Your mind goes blank. You become quiet. Perhaps you need to leave the room. Someone asks what you're thinking and the only honest answer you can give is, “I don't know.”...