…exception there was time with friends. Time Speaker 4: with friends was almost like chocolate chips in a cookie. Speaker 4: You can just add more and it keeps being better. Speaker 4: So that was pretty interesting.
And We also found one Speaker 4: of the surprising findings in that data was that spending Speaker 4: time on relaxing and leisure was actually associated with a Speaker 4: lower probability of having an especially good day. ◈ 8:36 And we Speaker 4: were like, I thought my grad student analyzed the data wrong.
Speaker 4: I made him go back and look at it again. Speaker 4: But it turned out it was about 70% of the Speaker 4: time that people were engaged in leisure and relaxation. They Speaker 4: were actually like watching Netflix, watching TV. And again, going Speaker 4: to what you're saying about that sort of false flow Speaker 4: or whatever.
It wasn't actually…
My note
This entirely makes sense. I know what it's like to force myself to have quote-unquote leisure time where the whole time I cannot stop thinking about what I could be doing, even though really what I need to be doing is taking a break.
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