I love gardening and listening to podcasts, mainly philosophy, too! Haven't come to it lately, to many other things that I prioritized.

"Making things" was probably one of my main motivations to start the bakery. It felt so good to knead the dough, think about new recipes, how to make the bread even better. I enjoyed it. Now I'm a manager, owner. It's not half as much fun. I enjoy it from time to time when I see the results, in Excel, on my bank account, especially when giving out the bonuses to the workers. Still, not the same. There will be some changes to the bakery, and I hope I can get into the dough again.

I don't think anything else can make me think that I'm doing something, while I'm not doing anything. I'm painfully aware when I'm doom scrolling. Also, the "paying attention" part is two-sided. There is a certain importance to boredom, the unfocused free-time, just hanging out and not doing anything - although I guess that the book refers to what today would be social media? Doom scrolling and such? The doing without doing, neither paying attention nor giving the mind some spectacular boredom time?

Anyway, many thanks for the suggestion! I'll see if I can find it, though that last name is really, really hard to spell :-D