I've been thinking a lot about that idleness article too. My first thought was "really? people just sit there and are bored for 15 minutes?" because I almost always have something I'm working on in my head. (Possibly this is why I needed to work so hard to get *more* idleness in my days!) But I can also think of genres of times when I do make the lazy choice without any reason other than inertia and it doesn't usually really serve me.

Things I wonder about: is the lazy choice appealing because I'm too often overwhelmed? Is this why resolutions like "take the stairs" are helpful?