It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the hea... See more

And yet with so much daily leisure time, people report feeling bored. In fact, rates of reported boredom have been rising over time, suggesting that the free time we have fails to nourish us. We are more bored now than ever befor