Short conversational piece (YouTube) where Ben Greenfield and another speaker discuss the value of shifting some free time toward productive, non-screen leisure activities. The exchange emphasizes balancing constant ‘doing’ with periods of ‘being’—examples include playing music, cooking, singing, or learning new skills—as a way to step away from work/checklists and discover more presence.
We live on a magical planet, and you don't have to do it all, which could be just exhausting. But you likely could benefit from being with leisure just a bit more particularly productive leisure that doesn't involve TV and screen time and entertainment, which is what humans do with our free time these days, but does allow you to take a step away from the work and the checklisting and the doing, doing, doing, and discover a bit more about being. How often are you playing a music instrument, singing a song, cooking a meal, learning how to fly a plane? How often are you doing that stuff.
And just stepping into leisure?
Well, when it comes to being and not just doing, do.
Be, do be, do be, do be, do, as the old song goes, do a little bit, be a little.
Bit, rinse, wash and repeat.
And that's a happy human.
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