What is "How to spend the best holiday" that breaks the best from the break?

byCarmela Nava

There are many people who think about how to spend the holidays which finally came after work on weekdays, thinking during work. Although some people think that "I want to spend relaxing without doing anything on a day off," but in reality, if I spend my days off on nothing, I can not start a fulfilling start on the working day of the holidays is. About "how to spend days off on the day" that many people may have misunderstood, "The Weekend Effect(Weekend Effect) "author and a Canadian literary award" Giller Prize "award winning writerKatrina OnstadSays.

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Those who were forced to work for a long time on weekdays or who spent their days working until midnight thought that it was a "good weekend ..." simply by saying "I could spend the weekend without being bothered by mails and spreadsheets" Tendency Also, many people may think that it is "the best weekend" to watch sports watching Netflix, go around Facebook for online shopping, bashfully diverge stress at the party.

However, Onstad asserts that this way of spending such a holiday is "how to spend a bad weekend". He is a sociologist at the University of CalgaryRobert StevinAccording to Mr., the "leisure" we do can be roughly divided into two types. One is "casual leisure (light leisure)", which includes drinking, online shopping, Netflix tour and so on. Casual leisure can be easily enjoyed with a PC or smartphone from a moment of moment and it will be passive pleasure. Casual leisure that easily releases dopamine easily heals people who are exhausted at work.

Another is "serious leisure (serious leisure)". Unlike casual leisure where you can enjoy easily while lying on the sofa, it is said that you need to strive for the goal and pursue it. I call a challenging leisure that needs to raise my skills regularly by serve a band with friends, collect stamps, collect more stupid things, and call it a serious leisure.

bySheila Tostes

Serious leisure does not necessarily have to be professional, Onstad says that even if it is an amateur level, there is seriousness "I want to improve" or "I want to do more amazing" OK. Pursuing serious leisure is an American psychologistAbraham MaslowSelf-realization "advocated by the company, and it is impossible to achieve self-realization with casual leisure.

However, there are many people who say "Serious leisure, workers on weekdays are too busy to have physical strength on weekends". Onstad is a British philosopher in 1932, in connection with the fact that people have no physical strength to do serious leisure on weekendsBertrand RussellPublished by "Hymn to laziness"Concerning the" cult of efficiency "concerned about concern.

Russell said that the waves of mechanization spread and that people were trapped by 'cult of efficiency'. As a result of constantly being chased by efficiency during work and becoming exhausted of all physical strength at work, people living in the city are passive, such as watching movies, watching soccer games, listening to the radio He said that he began to like fun. Russell said, "If they were not obsessed with efficiency cults, they would have been pleased with more aggressive pleasure." Even in the first half of the 20th century people who were tired of work were casual leisure holidays It is understood that it was spending on.

Today 'cult of efficiency' is getting thicker, people have been tied to the office till late at night and have been able to work in the house and on holidays with various devices. "If you can not affirm that you are" work = serious leisure ", consider changing the way of thinking about the work" to put out all the power on week days "so that you can leave your physical strength to do serious leisure over the weekend It may be good to try it, "Onstad said.

byKevin O'Mara

A meaningful way to spend a weekend is to make a meaningful pursuit using valuable time rather than simply turning brainstorm switches into immersive entertainment. The harder the goal you want to achieve, the harder is your weekend to be meaningful, and you can drive into work while feeling a sense of accomplishment on Monday of holiday. I forget about the flow of time and immerse him in somethingFlow stateThe prefrontal cortex activityTemporarily lower it, Other parts of the brain are more activated than usual, making it possible to create more creative ideas.

Also, Onstad says "It is important to deepen socialization" as a way to make weekend leisure more meaningful. For example, religious events form a group with confidence beyond generations by collecting people in the area at the same time and place. Solitude is serious to the bodyInfluenceIt is well known that it is possible to avoid loneliness by deepening socializing.

bySylvie burr

It is a wonderful leisure to serious leisure not only to benefit ourselves, but also to be beneficial to other people, and to devote ourselves to volunteer activities.(PDF file)A survey in 2010According to him, when spending time on altruistic activities, I realized that "I did something very meaningful" and I felt the time I felt for a long time.

Of course, Onstad says that it is also necessary to play for pleasure of your own pleasure. This pure play is different from the usual work, you do not need to measure how much time you have played with the tracking tool, and you do not need to set the start and end points. To excessively suppress playing and to the spiritHave a serious impactIt has also been confirmed that you should not chase yourself asceticly because it is obvious to serious leisure.

A weekend not doing anything is wonderful, but sometimes it is a way to feel a sense of fulfillment from the holidays to spend a weekend to pursue self-realization, sometimes entering "serious leisure". "On the next Monday after a serious leisure, you will benefit from it," Onstad summarizes.

byTinou Bao