How to Reclaim Your Right to Be Bored

It’s time to reject the idea that we should be hustling, producing, and crushing it all the damn time

Gabrielle Guthrie
Forge
Published in
5 min readFeb 25, 2021

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In Japanese art and design, the term yohaku no bi (余白の美 ) expresses the beauty of empty space. It’s employed across the arts from architecture, gardening, and the culinary arts to painting, literature, and cinema. Yohaku — empty…

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