Ep124: Hot Take - “Work Hard, Play Hard” Is a Lie
Ever heard the saying, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop”? 🤔
We’ve been told that too much free time is the problem. Leisure makes us lazy, distracted, and overindulgent. Even Dr. Anna Lembke argues this in Dopamine Nation – too much free time leads to dopamine over-consumption and addiction.
But here’s my hot take:
That's not true and
Leisure time isn’t the enemy.
The real issue is that we’ve been conditioned to believe our worth = our productivity. So when downtime shows up, our nervous systems panic. Stillness feels unsafe. Rest feels like failure. And we end up filling our “free time”…
The skinny
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