tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8597502568032519385..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Pursuit of LeisureStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72228298300621349092013-02-18T19:53:12.706-08:002013-02-18T19:53:12.706-08:00I love work. I wish I had more work. Work makes li...I love work. I wish I had more work. Work makes life worth living.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14155645557800087342013-02-18T07:14:32.578-08:002013-02-18T07:14:32.578-08:00Let's be clear. The article on Lifehacker, the...Let's be clear. The article on Lifehacker, the article in the Harvard Business review and my post make abundantly clear that they are referring to productive work, not to drudgery. I had thought that the picture I presented of leisure was clear enough. Also, it was apparently not for some.<br /><br />I was talking about those who have attacked the work ethic and who tend to demean work and to glorify leisure. Obviously, you cannot work all of the time, but when a culture places more value on leisure than on work, when it considers lying around a swimming pool to be the meaning of live, when it tells people that they should live for vacation it is inducing bad behavior. <br /><br />Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36938960792615390812013-02-18T07:06:51.797-08:002013-02-18T07:06:51.797-08:00You need to read Leisure the Basis of Culture by J...You need to read <i>Leisure the Basis of Culture</i> by Josef Pieper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50835261947800435132013-02-18T07:05:50.614-08:002013-02-18T07:05:50.614-08:00you need to read "Leisure the Basis of Cultur...you need to read "Leisure the Basis of Culture" by Joseph Pieper. He was a German philosopher of the last century, and he explains why authentic leisure is necessary for true human flourishing, and moreover is the purpose of work itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19645238539872410792013-02-18T06:10:17.483-08:002013-02-18T06:10:17.483-08:00You're making a false dichotomy. Work can be f...You're making a false dichotomy. Work can be fulfilling or drudgery; leisure can be vegetative but it can also be life enhancing, if used to get more in touch with other people, the world, the realm of ideas, and spirituality. And our culture has never had <i>less</i> leisure than it does today. We should re-balance.<br /><br />I wouldn't care to have you as a "life coach."Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79015340271765850162013-02-17T11:09:48.818-08:002013-02-17T11:09:48.818-08:00Playing doesn't bother me because play is acti...Playing doesn't bother me because play is active. Modern entertainment (music players, television, etc.) is quite passive. It used to be that you sought out leisure. Now you just use a remote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90223112097040163852013-02-17T08:30:22.675-08:002013-02-17T08:30:22.675-08:00Sometimes we just need a break in the routine.Sometimes we just need a break in the routine.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29727818863371652572013-02-16T13:52:08.996-08:002013-02-16T13:52:08.996-08:00Leisure use to mean "Such things as thinking ...Leisure use to mean "Such things as thinking or learning, reading or writing, conversation or correspondence, love and acts of friendship, political activity, domestic activity, artistic and aesthetic activity." <br />http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Labor,_Leisure,_and_Liberal_Education<br /><br /> now it's means playing for the sake of playing.Suncraighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615089217694537431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71118413933675842392013-02-16T11:54:35.604-08:002013-02-16T11:54:35.604-08:00Oh, let's not forget the divorce rate. My brot...Oh, let's not forget the divorce rate. My brother is going through this right now after 20 years. He worked too much and didn't do enough fun things. His soon to be ex is away again, second vacation in 4 months, though she is piss poor.Leo Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24898829823128781382013-02-16T09:26:43.973-08:002013-02-16T09:26:43.973-08:00Working on an car's assembly line seem unlikel...Working on an car's assembly line seem unlikely to be satisfying. I remember an account buy a guy observing one who thought the worker was on auto-pilot, so he put himself in the man's way. Man walked into him, then around. Same the 2nd time. Third time, the man came to, asked what the hell he was doing?Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com