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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Trevor recommended Pieper's book, explaining that true leisure is a cultivated skill rather than mere idleness.
There's a great book that was written by a German philosopher in the middle of the 20th century named Josef Pieper. He wrote this book called Leisure, the Basis of Culture. You're like, okay, so he's...
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Trevor recommended Pieper's book, explaining that true leisure is a cultivated skill rather than mere idleness.
There's a great book that was written by a German philosopher in the middle of the 20th century named Josef Pieper. He wrote this book called Leisure, the Basis of Culture. You're like, okay, so he's going to write a whole book about chilling on the beach. No, no, no. Chilling on the beach isn't leisure. That's asedia, which means kind of a laziness. And there's nothing wrong with chilling on the beach from time to time, but that's not actual leisure. Leisure, you have to be excellent at. You have to be excellent at leisure.