The NIKSEN Manifesto

Why we need NIKSEN in our lives:

Generally speaking, our culture does not promote sitting still, and that can have wide-reaching consequences for our mental health, well-being, productivity and other areas of our lives. Technology doesn’t make it any easier: The smartphone you carry with you at all hours makes it almost impossible to truly unplug and embrace idleness. (New York Times, 'The Case for Doing Nothing')

The ‘rules’ of NIKSEN:

• Find a place where you can allow yourself to put away digital technology: no phones, internet or screens
• Enable yourself to accept to do NIKSEN for an undecided amount of time
• Accept the awkwardness of silence, the itch to do something, or the notorious FOMO (fear of missing out)
• Try not to think of work or productivity
• Try to stop consuming, or to fetishise busyness

What is NIKSEN to you?

Create a method for yourself to ‘NIKSEN’.
Your place, pace and time.
Doing nothing is okay and necessary sometimes.
Take time to contemplate, reflect on yourself, how you are doing.
When you start losing sense of time, you’re on the right path.