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How to defend playful pursuits to practical-minded people

I started learning juggling during lunch breaks and my coworkers keep asking why I'm wasting time on something so useless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The utilitarian worldview cannot compute activities whose value lies precisely in their purposelessness.

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