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Why You Can’t Let Yourself Rest ?
Researchers once gave people fifteen minutes with nothing to do, and a choice: sit there, or take a fifteen minute walk that led nowhere and ended in the same place. Most people sat. But when the researchers added the flimsiest possible reason to walk, people went, and the ones who walked came back happier. Same fifteen minutes, same outcome, and the only thing that had changed was whether they’d been given permission to be busy.
This episode is about the hum behind your ribs on a free afternoon, the one that says you should be doing something. Where it came from, why being busy stopped being…
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