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Busy doing nothing: Mastering the art of masterly inactivity

Busy doing nothing: Mastering the art of masterly inactivity Jonathan Howcroft © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jason McCawley/Getty Images “Doing nothing with a deal of skill,” that is how the 18th-century poet, William Cowper, expressed the concept of masterly inactivity. It is an idea commonplace in healthcare and parenting, where outcomes can be negatively affected by unnecessary interference. But doing nothing skilfully is more challenging than it sounds, especially if your name isn’t Lionel Messi. In a recent podcast, economist Tim Harford used penalty-saving to explain masterly inactivity. A 2007 paper in the Journal of Economic Psychology identified that “given the probability distribution of kick direction, the optimal strategy for goalkeepers is to stay in the goal’s centre. Goalkeepers, however, almost always jump right or left.” Sometimes doing nothing is the hardest thing to do, especially when there is an expectation of activit

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