Title: Why You Should Prioritize Leisure and Play

Date: 12/26/24

Name of podcast: Thrivology Lab

Episode title and number: #13 Why You Should Prioritize Leisure and Play

Brief summary of episode: In this episode we discuss the importance of prioritizing leisure and play for your wellbeing.

Bullet points of key topics + chapter markers

Topic #1 [0:00] Intro

Topic #2 [3:50] How Subjective Wellbeing is measured

Topic #3 [6:00] Defining leisure

Topic #4 [8:00] Defining play

Topic #5 [11:00] Defining sport

Topic #6 [18:30] How leisure has changed over time, by society, and by gender

Topic #7 [29:50] Understanding why play promotes wellbeing

Topic #8 [35:00] Comedy and laughter makes us healthier

Topic #9 [37:00] DRAMMA model of why leisure promotes wellbeing

Topic #10 [48:00] Your weekly challenge

References & Resources:

- https://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~ediener/SWLS.html

- http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Definitions_of_Play

- https://appliedsportpsych.org/about-the-association-for-applied-sport-psychology/about-sport-and-performance-psychology/definition-of-sport/

- http://cilra.ahs.illinois.edu/sites/cilra.ahs.illinois.edu/files/kleiber_2012.pdf

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6

- https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258511569_Leisure_and_Subjective_Well-Being_A_Model_of_Psychological_Mechanisms_as_Mediating_Factors

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