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…talk to any leisure researcher, and he or she will say that the true test of leisure is not what the activity is that fills a certain block of time but how that time feels.
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238 |
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If true leisure is all about choice, sometimes TV is simply the easy choice. It’s right in your living room. It’s cheap. Turning it on requires no effort. Yes, sometimes we choose TV because we’re too tired for anything else.
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240 |
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…in Italy… long, lazy days away from the office [are] embraced as part of il dolce far niente – the sweetness of doing nothing.
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240 |
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…consciously choosing leisure is the first step to reclaiming it.
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250 |
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The antidote to leisure-time ennui is to pay as much attention to scheduling a productive evening or weekend as you do to your workday.
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109 |
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Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life.
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112 |
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Free time devoted to active leisure… promotes happiness far more than spending time engaged in passive leisure activities…
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039 |
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It isn’t enough to build in more time for leisure. You must make sure you do everything you can to enjoy the leisure time you have cultivated.
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086 |
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…thinking about the economic value of our leisure time can undermine our enjoyment of it, because we are constantly comparing the experience against some perceived expected value or ideal.
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086 |
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Anything that takes us out of our present enjoyment of leisure time destroys its value and makes us less likely to want to engage in the behavior again in the future.
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087 |
