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How to Learn to Savor When Your Mind Says It's Wasteful

My French husband says Americans don't know how to savor anything and he's probably right but I don't know how to turn off the voice that says I'm wasting time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche splits between longing for presence and terror of unproductivity, revealing how deeply we've internalized our worth as measured by output.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mediterranean relationship with time?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.