The leisure in your life

Author: Jeffrey Gettle
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: This is a bestseller in the American academic world. The author, with a solid theoretical foundation, passionately celebrates leisure in human life. The author believes that we live in a rapidly changing era, and leisure is the field where change is fastest. So, what is leisure? The author defines leisure from perspectives such as time, mindset, state of existence, and behavior: a relatively free way of life that liberates individuals from external pressures of cultural and material environments. It enables individuals to act in ways they love and instinctively find valuable, driven by the love within them, and provides a foundation for belief. The perspective of the entire book focuses on both the social and personal levels of life, telling us: leisure is a complex, not simple, concept and phenomenon, and it is part of the human existence process. Therefore, leisure behavior not only seeks happiness but also seeks the meaning of life. Fundamentally, leisure is the exploration of life's meaning and happiness.
Having leisure is humanity's oldest dream—to break free from endless toil; to do what one loves at will, with joy; to be at ease in various social circumstances; to be independent of the constraints of nature and others; to live gracefully and freely.