🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, and you're listening to the Weekend Book Review — where your weekend reading list meets your inner researcher. Today, we're unpacking a little book with big ideas, and I promise you, it’s going to shift how you think about what you do in your free time. 🧠📖✨The book is titled Project-Based Leisure: Toward Personal Well-Being and Community Involvement, written by none other than Robert A. Stebbins — a name that rings loud and clear in the world of leisure studies. If you’ve heard of the serious leisure perspective, you’ve already stepped into Stebbins' world. He’s a professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the kind of sociologist who has spent over five decades mapping how humans find meaning, creativity, and connection in their free time. 🧩🎨🌍In this compact but thought-provoking book, Stebbins introduces us to something he calls Project-Based Leisure, or PBL for short. It’s not the mindless scrolling kind of leisure. It’s also not your long-haul, life-consuming passion project. PBL is the stuff that falls just in between. It’s that short-term, creative, one-off adventure—like joining a mural-painting weekend, organizing a neighborhood cleanup, or building a backyard greenhouse from scratch. Things you do for joy, for growth, and sometimes, for the community. 🌿🛠️💡He argues that while PBL may not be as intense as serious leisure or as fleeting as casual fun, it plays a vital role in boosting our well-being and deepening our community ties. And honestly? I’ve started seeing my own weekends in a different light. That one-off documentary project. That pop-up poetry event. That time I helped set up a local food drive. Were those chores? No. They were mini-missions. 📝💪🎭So here’s the question I’m still turning over in my mind after finishing this book:🤔 What if the secret to a more fulfilling life isn’t in chasing constant passion or endless productivity, but in embracing the occasional project that lights a small but meaningful spark?A huge thank you to Robert A. Stebbins and Springer Nature for bringing us this beautiful blend of theory and practice, grounded in years of real research and real life.✨ Make sure you subscribe to our podcast Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, and Apple Podcasts — and head over to our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher for more deep dives, weekend reads, and unexpected ideas. 🎧📺💬Go build something this weekend. Not for money. Not for status. Just because it matters to you. 💙🛠️🌱ReferenceStebbins, R. A. (2023). Project-Based Leisure. In SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47052-3Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherSupport us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher

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