Even for the affluent, everyday American life is often remarkably impoverished, if measured in terms of free time, social connectedness, political engagement, meaningful work, or other things harder to calibrate than the horsepower of your engine or the square feet of your McMansion.
Young players put in years of training and commitment to a professional athletic lifestyle entailing strict diets, long daily practice sessions, weekly tournaments, obedience to coaches, tolerance of pain and fatigue, restricted social engagements, and little free time.
The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics, are the first to examine how children spend their free time and will be used to track engagement with the outdoors and sport.
Instead of filling every free moment with an engagement or meeting, allow yourself some free time to reduce stress.
I asked Lionel what scores he's toting around for his future engagements and how he would spend his available free time in the City.
There are engagement parties, bridal shower(s), fittings, tastings, and the free time you have left is spent shopping for gifts, finding the right pair of shoes... it never ends.
Those who read less were significantly more likely to attribute it to having less free time or to stress rather than prioritizing political activism; only 9percentt said political engagement was a factor in reducing their reading time.
No democracy in history has ever sustained high levels of engagement on the hope that citizens are willing to sacrifice their free time to make a marginal difference.
Part of the problem is that the rules of engagement put travelers through an exhausting gantlet of museums, monuments and jade shops with little free time to rub elbows with the locals.
