Dr Frederik G. PferdtFrom Stanford & Google — To You

Stop Choosing Between What You Love — Do This Instead

12 May 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt suggests you don't have to choose between work, family, health, and creativity. Instead, find activities that count twice or three times over: painting with your daughter covers art and bonding; swimming with your husband and friends hits exercise, friendship, and romance at once.

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work, family, your relationship with your spouse, physical activity, friendship, art, let's say. Looking for what she called the double and triple plays or the home runs within it, finding things that you can get, you can touch on multiple of those things that you value at once. So painting with my daughter would be a double play because I love to paint. She loves to paint and we get to do that together. Or going for a swim with my husband and some friends would be a triple play 'cause it's physical activity, it's friendship, and it's time with my spouse.