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The Dutch offer lessons in being more chill with Maartje Willems’ “The Lost Art of Doing Nothing” and Olga Mecking’s “Niksen,” which establish the Netherlands as the global capitol of zoning out, as well as Mirjam van der Vegt’s soothing “Stilte,” which promulgates a more intent, spiritual embrace of solitude, stillness and silence derived from Christian monastic practice, the end result of which may be to doff our earbuds altogether and just get comfortable with peace and quiet.

This practice has been portrayed recently as “doing nothing,” thanks in part to Olga Mecking’s 2020 book, “Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing.”

Olga Mecking is a writer living in the Netherlands and the author of “Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing.”

Concepts like "niksen," Dutch for "doing nothing," and "wintering," resting in response to adversity, have entered the wellness lexicon.

It's called "niksen," a Dutch term for doing nothing.