Idler Movement
The Idler movement on time and quality:
âTravailler moins, produire plus.â? In other words, the less you work, the more you produce. And certainly in my own experienceâeven in the really good jobsâa lot of the day is just spent sitting there, staring at your screen, pretending to work, checking your emails, on the phone to your girlfriend. I realized Iâd rather work hard for two or three hours in a dayâwhich was the only real work I was doingâand then bobble about the rest of the time, in the park or whatever. Iâve found that there isnât any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatlesâ songs probably originated in about five minutes. Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because theyâre over-worked." (http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2005/06/how_to_be_idle.html)
Book: Tom Hodgkinson. How to be Idle. HarperCollins, 2005