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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1078" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://qz.com/970924/the-psychological-importance-of-wasting-time/" target="_blank">The psychological importance of wasting time - Quartz</a>There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But the truth is, a life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed. And “wasted” time is, in fact, highly fulfilling and necessary.Don’t believe me? Take it from the creator of “Inbox Zero.” As Oliver Burkeman reports <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives" target="_blank">in The Guardian</a>, Merlin Mann was commissioned to write a book about his streamlined email system. Two years later, he abandoned the project and instead posted a (since deleted) blog post on how he’d spent so long focusing on how to spend time well, he’d ended up missing valuable moments with his daughter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1078, member: 1"] [URL='https://qz.com/970924/the-psychological-importance-of-wasting-time/'][B]The psychological importance of wasting time - Quartz[/B][/URL] There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But the truth is, a life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed. And “wasted” time is, in fact, highly fulfilling and necessary. Don’t believe me? Take it from the creator of “Inbox Zero.” As Oliver Burkeman reports [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives']in The Guardian[/URL], Merlin Mann was commissioned to write a book about his streamlined email system. Two years later, he abandoned the project and instead posted a (since deleted) blog post on how he’d spent so long focusing on how to spend time well, he’d ended up missing valuable moments with his daughter. [/QUOTE]

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