Heidi Grant HalvorsonBusywork has a bad rep. Keeping yourself (or someone else) busy doing meaningless or unnecessary tasks, simply for the sake of avoiding idleness, seems like a pointless waste of energy.

Only it turns out there is a point to it — recent research shows that keeping busy doing anything makes you a whole lot happier than you would have been doing nothing. Just sitting around, bored and inert, is a recipe for misery.

But if that’s true, why then do we so often choose idleness? Why do we do nothing, when we could almost always be doing something?

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\"HeidiBusywork has a bad rep. Keeping yourself (or someone else) busy doing meaningless or unnecessary tasks, simply for the sake of avoiding idleness, seems like a pointless waste of energy. <\/p>\n

Only it turns out there is a point to it — recent research shows that keeping busy doing anything makes you a whole lot happier than you would have been doing nothing. Just sitting around, bored and inert, is a recipe for misery.<\/p>\n

But if that’s true, why then do we so often choose idleness? Why do we do nothing, when we could almost always be doing something?

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