Effortful Leisure Is a Source of Meaning in Everyday Life
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A study finds that effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life, sparking discussion on the value of leisure activities.
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onecommentman
4 months ago
Recommend Josef Pieper’s book Leisure, the Basis of Culture published in 1948. Very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, when teachers worried about what subjects to teach children so as to fill the copious spare time they would experience in their adult lives.
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