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There's a world of a difference between being able to carve out 30 actually uninterrupted minutes (and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home, so they'd need to spend some time getting there and back) and being able to zone out and stare at a screen for 30 minutes in bed or on public transit.

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> and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home

Most people have a sauna in their home, this is Finland.

And those that don't have usually access to one in the building that they can use.

Or if they don't have that, can just go to one of the numerous public saunas.

Is this actual stat? Or do you mean “have access to” instead of actually “at their home” i.e. a private sauna they can use at any time 24/7, because from my lived experience I doubt the latter.

Essentially all residential buildings in Finland have saunas. Freestanding houses have private ones, apartments have communal ones but you can book a private time slot.

Yeah, so the latter as I suspected

Not having an hour of uninterrupted leisure time per day, never mind per week (most Finns don’t go to sauna every day) still sounds pretty unfathomable, except maybe in some specific circumstances like being a fresh single parent or similar. In any case, in Finland people go to sauna together with even fairly young kids (like 3+ years old), with breaks as needed of course, even most adults don’t usually spend thirty continuous minutes in a 80°C sauna.

Virtually everyone everywhere can find free 30 minutes. And turn their devices off. Those who think they cannot would do well getting to a state where they can do this, at least 6, preferably 7 days a week.

Skipping screen time between waking up and getting up will might solve this problem for a significant fraction of the first world population. My 2c.

And it is so hot that you can't use your phone full of addicting apps that ruin your sanity.

You're describing a tool. It can destroy your sanity yes, but it also enables sanity if that makes sense.

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