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Leisure as serious activity

Leisure isn't rest from work—it's a discipline of attention that requires learning how to do nothing productively, to be shaped by thought rather than output. The Greeks understood that leisure (scholē) was the foundation for citizenship and philosophy, not a reward after labor.

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