[HN Gopher] "Niksen": The art of doing nothing
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"Niksen": The art of doing nothing
Author : Archelaos
Score : 13 points
Date : 2024-02-07 11:12 UTC (1 days ago)
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| pieter_mj wrote:
| Wat zit jij weer te niksen! Niksen is heerlijk if it doesn't last
| too long :).
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| Niks = nothing. Closely related to procrastination but not
| exactly the same. It actually helps getting/regaining focus and
| relieving stress.
| waffleiron wrote:
| > I couldn't find any record of use of niksen in the Dutch
| language before the late 2010s.
|
| This feel wrong to me, the concept is definitely older. It just
| went by nietsen instead of niksen, which is (or was) more
| grammatically correct/formal as niks is an informal/spoken
| version of niets.
|
| Here is an example [1] from 2006 with nietsen, defined as to do
| nothing on a grammar forum. And before 2008 [2] as "not doing
| anything". Even a use from 1997 [3].
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| [1] https://www.dutchgrammar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=627 [2]
| https://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=Verbs.Ot04 [3] https://ronald-
| giphart.nl/vrouwen-zijn-de-baas/
| tmountain wrote:
| How do you do it--in layman's terms? Is it like meditation, or is
| there a more active method?
| tripdout wrote:
| This whole article says nothing about what it actually is.
| Gys wrote:
| To me it is intensionally doing nothing and enjoying it. It can
| still include something active like walking around a bit, but
| without much thinking and without a goal. Enjoying whatever you
| see. Its being in the moment.
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| Disclaimer: did not read the article but am Dutch
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