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What a Challenge! “Do Nothing For 2 Minutes”…

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Tech

Ca you imagine you do nothing for two whole minutes? I can surely do, however I have to stare at the sea…. Anyway, a website is challenging you to do nothing for two minutes while you ( or me lol)  sit in front of your computer.

All you have to do is to stare for two long minutes at a screen site showing an awesome picture of a sunset over the ocean, while the sound of waves crashing on a beach is being played.

The moment you enter the site a timer starts running backwards – for two whole minutes.

Believe me that’s a real challenge as we all know that we can’t stand still in front of our PCs.

However the moment you touch the mouse or the keyboard, the two minutes- timer resets itself.

My Personal Do Nothing 2 Minutes Experiment

Ok, I tried it! I managed to stand still for whole 23 seconds! I had an inner impulse to find out more about the page, you know, “who, when, why”. So I opened a new window and went googling.

To make the short story long, as I had more windows open on my pc screen and surfed further and further and wrote some posts, and answered the phone, and had coffee,  and went buying cigarettes, and had a sandwich  and kept working …I totally forgot the Do Nothing site was open…

However while in front of  the pc, I kept listening to the sound of waves without watching the picture ( I bet the timer had long given up!).

 The first hour it was a pleasant sound, very much on the background.  I realised it only from time to time.

In the second hour I started listen to it. In the third hour the sound came more forward, I had even the feeling it was louder.

Then it started annoying me lol. After having the waves crashing on a beach for 3,5 hours I closed the site caught by a slight adrenaline shot.

Website: Do Nothing for 2 Minutes.

Read more about the creator Alex Tew, CEO of Popjam, and his motives for sweet two minutes of nothing here