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Italians Are Teaching Me About Rest
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 fo... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
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