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The death of leisure time is here - this is how we save it
Adults spend their free time with escapist distractions (anything that will fill your mind with something that's not your real life); ‘should-ing’ themselves into productive hobbies; or taking care of all the many “to dos” that never seem to add up or count for anything. Where is the play? Where is the time for our minds to wander? Our curiosities
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We have inherited from all this a deeply bizarre idea of what it means to spend your time off “well”—and, conversely, what counts as wasting it. In this view of time, anything that doesn’t create some form of value for the future is, by definition, mere idleness. Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work, or perhaps... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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... See more