I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.”

This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing attend to the world & focus your situation in order to flourish OR as obsessive busyness–hyperproductivity–in which you work so much, there is literally no time to focus on your holistic condition. This piece from the New York Times is a really nice introduction to that latter phenomenon: The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

If you want to learn what this has to do with philosophizing as a way of life, I highly recommend The Price of Truth by Marcel Henaff.