mindfulness: "too many people are avoiding using their brains"

One way to motivate your employees is with a little fish or even some cheese:
Jay Doubleyou: fish philosophy and the motivational mafia

You could just get them to chill out with some 'mindfulness':
Wellbeing is the key to keeping employees motivated | Guardian Careers | The Guardian

The health service is promoting it:
Mindfulness for mental wellbeing - Stress, anxiety and depression - NHS Choices

But not everyone thinks it's the best thing...

This is from this week's Telegraph:

People are wasting valuable thinking time on mediation and mindfulness and should stop trying to clear their heads, an Oxford University academic has claimed.

Theodore Zeldin said too many people were avoiding using their brains and instead escaping into a state of blank mental oblivion.

Mindfulness has been widely championed for inspiring creative thought,lowering depression and improving physical health and is even recommended by the NHS.

Mindfulness is stopping the world from thinking - Telegraph

This is from the Spectator:



Mindfulness is something worse than just a smug middle-class trend » The Spectator

And this piece isn't exactly positive either:



Mind Your Own Business - The Baffler
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