Using excess discretionary time on productive activities can help bolster well-being, study says
This is a bullshit way to classify "free time". Two of my biggest hobbies are gardening and woodworking, do those not count as my free time because they're productive? I would love to do those things all day instead of work, but unfortunately my health insurance is tied to my job and I'd rather not go bankrupt if I cut a finger off making a table.
I realize there are people out there with no hobbies that don't involve staring at a screen, and yeah, I can imagine that too much of that doesn't feel great and it's probably why you get people who don't know what to do with themselves after they retire. That doesn't mean free time is bad, it means people need better hobbies.
This is a bullshit way to classify "free time". Two of my biggest hobbies are gardening and woodworking, do those not count as my free time because they're productive? I would love to do those things all day instead of work, but unfortunately my health insurance is tied to my job and I'd rather not go bankrupt if I cut a finger off making a table.
I realize there are people out there with no hobbies that don't involve staring at a screen, and yeah, I can imagine that too much of that doesn't feel great and it's probably why you get people who don't know what to do with themselves after they retire. That doesn't mean free time is bad, it means people need better hobbies.