hobbies
2026
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
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…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.
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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.
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos omny.fm ↗
Did early humans collect keepsakes 500,000 years ago?
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The study combines archaeological findings with insights from evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience. Its authors point to objects that early humans collected, carried and kept despite having no apparent practical purpose. They propose that these objects may have served as personal keepsakes, reminding their owners of a place they had visited or an experience they had had.
Phys.org ↗