I've talked about the idea of 'productivity anxiety' in the workplace for this article in Yahoo News . But I also wanted to take a moment to explore the idea of 'free time anxiety'. This concept is absolutely something that would resonate with many of us. A sense of worry, fear or guilt that we ’should’ be doing more. That we don’t know what to do with ourselves when we have free time. This could be because we have been conditioned to prize productivity. Or because we a

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