[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Thanks for the tip on the book! Looking at the review here would you say it touches on many or most of the key points, however briefly? I don't need to be convinced of the value of play, my problem is that I'm too easily persuaded to skip the work part :-)

That review seems like a very good summary of the book. My only real quibble is that the review is less clear than it could be about the Unschedule idea. The Unschedule includes not just leisure activities, but also other necessary things like sleeping, eating, personnel care, required meetings, etc. Essentially any thing that has a definite claim on your time, or should, goes on the Unschedule. It's very helpful for visualizing just how little time is left for discretionary actions.

Other pieces of the book are less clear in my mind; it's been more than 4 years since I read it. Perhaps I need to re-read it now.