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4: Resting Isn't Lazy

4: Resting Isn't Lazy

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 In this episode of Unboxing It, we take a swing at the capitalist idea that rest is bad. Evil. The worst. And we’re terrible for giving in to it.How did we go from scheduled nap times in kindergarten (yeah, we miss those too) to believing we’ll never be successful—whatever that means—without two jobs, a side hustle, and a strict morning routine? Society teaches us all that productivity is king, and pushes us to keep going well beyond healthy limits.And even when we do manage to rest (which is getting harder to do with the rising cost of living), there’s that little voice inside that tells us how lazy we are for doing so.Today, Lara and Rowan take on the productivity monster and come up with strategies on how to tame it. Which is good because Rowan could use some help in that area.Referenced during the show:Lara’s book: You’re Not LazyThis Tiktok From Tara DifrancisoTranscript[00:00:00] Rowan: I'm having a bit of a realization myself as I say this, but don't see what purpose it serves to be hard on ourselves when we don't have the energy.[00:00:31] Lara: Welcome to another episode of Unboxing It. Today we are gonna talk about one of my very favorite topics, and it's, a saying that I almost have coined as my own. I made stickers with it. Like I really love it because I think it's so important and it is resting isn't lazy.[00:00:50] Rowan: Oh, I hate this.[00:00:52] Lara: I love it.I love talking about this. I can't wait to dig into it with you. I can't wait to hear what other people take away from this and how they feel about it, but it's really just something that I think is so important to remind people. Resting isn't lazy.[00:01:11] Rowan: I completely agree with you, but by the way, for the record, when I say I hate this, I don't mean that I disagree.I mean that I feel entirely called out in it. So we're coming from this from two different angles, and I think that's gonna make it a really interesting conversation.[00:01:28] Lara: I agree. I agree. And you know, I talk a lot about lazy or the fact that I don't think lazy is a thing. but I think that it manifests in so many ways for people.Some of the time people don't rest because they think they should be productive. And the other flip side of it is. If they try to rest, they don't actually rest because they feel like they shouldn't be resting. Like there's two sides of it where it almost always is pushing people to feel badly about resting.[00:01:59] Rowan: Oh, what? what if you're both asking for a friend, a very, very, very close friend of mine who maybe doesn't rest until let's say, oh, I don't know. He gets diagnosed with burnout and then when he burns out, just feels bad about binge watching TV because he should be doing something productive with his time off.[00:02:22] Lara: Yes, because when you take time off for burnout. It is meant to be like a vacation, right? Like you're like, oh, now that I'm not doing this thing, now I should have time to catch up on all the other things I haven't done. So the whole topic is wrapped up in the fact that all of us have been taught our whole lives that productivity is the most important thing.[00:02:51] Rowan: Yeah, like the most important thing, because when you even think of the school system, like the standard North American school system, that's about all I can speak to here as a Canadian, it was designed to get these little worker bees out the door. It was designed that this particular system was built during the industrial revolution to get people.Educated enough to go out into the workforce. So we're taught right away that we need to be productive. It's, we're asked when we're like, in kindergarten, what do you wanna be when you grow up? And it's not about like, I want to be a good person, or I want to, you know, play with dogs No, no, no. It's about what job do you want?So it's drilled in from the get go.[00:03:37] Lara: Yeah. And. We tend to take most of our value out of our productivity, right? So how well have I done in my job? How much money have I made? How you know well, do I keep my house clean all of the, I worked hard and I've been productive. Stuff is stuff that people come and praise you for and therefore people think if I don't do that, what worth do I have in the world?[00:04:02] Rowan: By people you might mean me, although I have. Deprogram myself to an extent over time, but I would be lying if I said, this isn't something that is drilled so far into my psyche that every moment that I rest there's this like, some small part of me that's like, Hey Rowan, you know, the floor in the kitchen could really use mopping right now.Right? Like, this is what I get to, , it's like I can't just sit still. It, takes training. It's hard. I.[00:04:33] Lara: It does. It takes a lot of training. And again, so like for that two sides of it, there are the people who feel like when they're not doing something, they're like, I should be doing this, I should be doing this, I should be doing ...

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