I am reminded about an old Star Trek that stated “the more complex the mind, the more the necessity for the simplicity of play.”
For folks whose work is less active, they might find more pleasure if their hobbies and fun activities contain an largely physical role.
Some of my more intelligent and sedentary relatives would spend their non working hours rebuilding their home, painting and gardening…
As for me, I have always enjoyed doing things very different that my true vocation. Investing my time exploring new aspects of our world has always had an interest.
By the way, speaking of fun, although I am not at all a soccer fan… I congratulate all of Iraq over their recent victory!
On a related note….
“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them, to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Roger Freberg
PS. My wife just finished painting the kitchen…. she had fun doing it… but the important thing was that … I didn’t have to do it!