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Why doing nothing feels like wasting time

I scheduled a vacation day to do nothing but I spent it reorganizing my closet and felt guilty about wasting time

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural conditioning equates human worth with productivity, making purposeless being feel morally wrong.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sabbath — the weekly practice of stopping?”

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