Eureka5280
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First, I acknowledge that these are nebulous terms - I would identify 3 hours of bingeing Netflix as pure leisure, but the case could be made that doing so will give you something to talk about with coworkers, thus strengthening relationships and improving your career prospects. For this exercise I'd like to define pure leisure as activities that will have no direct benefit to your income, knowledge, or physical health. Things like watching tv on the couch, mindlessly surfing the internet with no purpose, casually playing video games.
Productive activity can probably be at least split in two categories. One would be "true work" like spending hours for an employer or client, doing the dishes, repairing something around the house, or studying for a certificate that will improve your income. The other would be something more like "productive leisure", things like hiking in the mountains, practicing an instrument, or productive hobbies like woodworking.
So with those definitions out of the way, I'm looking for a framework around how people split up their waking hours between the pure leisure and productive buckets? I intuitively feel I spend way too much of my time indulging in pure leisure, but I'm interested in how others approach this.
Productive activity can probably be at least split in two categories. One would be "true work" like spending hours for an employer or client, doing the dishes, repairing something around the house, or studying for a certificate that will improve your income. The other would be something more like "productive leisure", things like hiking in the mountains, practicing an instrument, or productive hobbies like woodworking.
So with those definitions out of the way, I'm looking for a framework around how people split up their waking hours between the pure leisure and productive buckets? I intuitively feel I spend way too much of my time indulging in pure leisure, but I'm interested in how others approach this.