Pro Tips English Free Time Do you prefer to be active or relax in your free time? Can't I do both? Not to be awkward, but again, not to keep using the same example of climbing, but let's just say any form of exercise that is by definition it is an exertion . You are exerting yourself. But it is immensely relaxing to do that . I mean, there's a release of positive endorphins which actually relax you . They make you feel better. So I would say, depending on the activity, both. And what did you do in your free time when you were younger? Played a lot of music. Like a lot of Irish kids, I had to study music. At first I didn't want to, but then I grew to love it . So learning how to play a number of instruments was part of my childhood . Do you think it's important to have free time? Oh, absolutely . I think investing as much of your mental energy and resources into maximising your free time is more important than your work. You work to live, you don't live to work. That's the general motto of the French and it's a rare point of complete
