{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69f60b6dad98579289fe040f/6a2552506263fbced68847ce?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Boredom, Simplicity & Robin Williams | Seneca, Nietzsche & The Cartoons That Hit Hard","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69f60b6dad98579289fe040f/1780830679211-82b87754-3e31-4eee-b23b-9463bba00ad9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What if the most productive thing you could do today is absolutely nothing?</p><p>Four conversations about boredom, simplicity, Robin Williams, and the cartoons that said everything we couldn't. A Sunday morning for slowing down.</p><p><br></p><p>This is Perfect Days — a weekly morning podcast built around ideas worth carrying with you.</p><p>Today: the radical philosophy of boredom — and why Seneca, Descartes, and Lao Tzu all agreed that the empty space is where everything real begins; Nietzsche's brutal case for a simpler life and the crying baby who is still living inside all of us; Robin Williams on the fragile, precious meaning of a life — his quiet warning to look around before it is too late; and the cartoons that hit like a physical blow, because they said the truest things about loneliness, loops, and the courage it takes to leap.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"shahrooz hezarehnejad"}