The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

his day’s work. They should not involve will and
quick decision, they should not, like gambling,
involve any financial element, and they should as a
rule not be so exciting as to produce emotional
fatigue and preoccupy the subconscious as well as
the conscious mind /
A great many amusements fulfil all these
conditions. Watching games, going to the theatre,
playing golf, are all irreproachable from this point
of view. For a man of a bookish turn of mind,
reading unconnected with his professional
activities is very satisfactory. However important
a worry may be, it should not be thought about
throughout the whole of the waking hours.
In this respect there is a great difference between
men and women. Men on the whole find it very
much easier to forget their work than women do. In
the case of women whose work is in the home this
is natural, since they do not have the change of
place that a man has when he leaves the office to
help them to acquire a new mood. But if I am not