Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Charlie Becker wrote about “psychological richness” and I wonder if that ties into my new thinking on leisure (it feels dirty to turn leisure into a framework, but here it is:). Nature, friendship, art, culture, psyche. “Richness” feels like a relevant word because these 5 points are a kind of satisfaction that can’t be bought (your aesthetic appre
... See moreI am in a fair way of having no other tasks than such as I shall like to give my self, and of enjoying what I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large . . . on such points as may produce something for the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The regrettable consequence of justifying leisure only in terms of its usefulness for other things is that it begins to feel vaguely like a chore – in other words, like work in the worst sense of that word. This was a pitfall the critic Walter Kerr noticed back in 1962, in his book The Decline of Pleasure: ‘We are all of us compelled,’ Kerr wrote,
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
La partie adverse se contente de vivre modestement, et préfère profiter du temps ainsi gagné pour observer les autres et prendre du bon temps, mais leurs protestations ont des accents de bravade et de gasconnade. Il ne devrait pourtant pas en être ainsi. Cette prétendue oisiveté, qui ne consiste pas à ne rien faire, mais à faire beaucoup de choses
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