In 1938 the average American spent 47 minutes a day doing nothing — by 2026 that number had almost vanished, and researchers say that lost time was never idle, it was when the brain did its most impor

In 1965, the earliest large-scale time-diary study ever conducted found that the average American between the ages of 25 and 35 spent the equivalent of nearly an hour each day doing nothing in particular — not reading, not socialising, not listening to anything, not working. Just existing, unscheduled, in the particular kind of mental open […]