Tom Hodgkinson is editor of the Idler magazine and author of How To Be Idle, How To Be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. He has recently opened a small independent bookshop and café in London. In this talk, Tom discusses the connection between idling and running your own small business, and argues that the two are more closely connected than might appear at first sight. In this session, he urges us to throw off the ‘mind forg’d manacles’ and recreate our own everyday lives, and if that means facing up to doing your own tax return, then so be it!