Tom Hodgkinson
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Tom Hodgkinson is a British writer and the editor of The Idler[1][2], which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. He was educated at Westminster School. He has contributed articles to The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being the author of The Idler spin-off How To Be Idle (2005), How To Be Free (released in the U.S. under the title The Freedom Manifesto) and The Idle Parent[3].
In 2006 Hodgkinson created National Unawareness Day[4] to be celebrated on 1 November.
His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. His philosophy of the Idle Parent is very much in tune with Carl Honore's Slow parenting, although with a more light-hearted self interest in drinking and sex[5].
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- How To Be Idle (2005)
- How To Be Free (October 2006)
- The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste (December 2007; the US release of How to Be Free)
- The Idle Parent (2009)
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- ^ How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson
- ^ London’s first Slow Down festival
- ^ The patter of tiny feet
- ^ National Unawareness Day
- ^ Hodgkinson, Tom (2009). The Idle Parent. Hamish Hamilton. pp. 125. ISBN 9780241143735.
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