Why is it so hard to just rest?

On the difference between usefulness and value, and how necessary it is to learn how to truly rest. 00:00 We might know how to stop working but... 00:52 We put a ton of pressure on our hobbies because 02:39 We want to matter! 03:12 We want to be useful! 05:20 Josef Pieper agrees in 'Leisure: The Basis of Culture' 06:46 Useful is not the same as valuable 08:06 The trinity of ways I might pursue something 09:38 Culminates in rest which 11:05 Sometimes means turning away from what's "easy" and 11:58 Always means taking a mindset of rest, sometimes by force 13:15 We need to give ourselves permission to rest...but not be sloths or slugs 15:25 Please don't stop wanting to matter, but give yourself permission to rest too. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/contributors/danij...