Amanda, who grew up in a suburb of Detroit, still struggles with unstructured free time. When she arrived at college in the early 2000s, she no longer had a chock-full schedule of activities around which to orient her life. “Any down time began to feel like I was being lazy and unproductive,” she recalls, “which in turn made me question my self-worth.” Today, if she’s not doing something, she feels like she’s wasting time.
