As it’s the end of the week, thought I’d throw some critical thoughts about leisure time into the pot, to see if anybody out there is alive (bites) 🙂
‘It is in the improvident use of our leisure, I suspect, that the greatest waste of life occurs’
Robert E. Park, 1864 – 1944
American sociologist
“Watching TV, movies, sport – This vicarious participation is able to mask, at least temporarily the underlying emptiness of wasted time. But is a very pale substitute for attention invested in real challenges. The positive experience that results from the use of skills leads to growth; passive entertainment leads nowhere. Collectively we (society) are wasting the equivalent of millions of years of human consciousness.”
Paraphrased excerpt from the New York Times bestseller “Flow – the psychology of optimal experience”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Sociologist, phycologist & author.
Csikszentmihalyi is a professor of management at the Claremont Graduate Center. He is also the director of the Quality of Life Research Center, a nonprofit institute in Claremont, California