True, but spending time meditating would inevitably be reducing something else - even if it&#x27;s just an equivalent of goofing off on HN.<p>If you enjoy meditating, or think there&#x27;s a sufficiently high chance of benefits from it, you won&#x27;t mind. But if you remain sufficiently unconvinced, why spend time on it when you could enjoy more free time instead, just because someone else is convinced there is value in it? To me it seems less an interesting thing I&#x27;m eager to try, and more a new chore or exercise I&#x27;d have to take up, so the time spent wouldn&#x27;t be taken straight out of the activities with the least utility - more likely out of &quot;daily&#x2F;weekly maintenance habits&quot; time. So it would really need to be more effective than whatever I usually would have done instead. If I&#x27;m going to spend an extra 10 minutes&#x2F;day on a new habit, is meditation going to be the most effective one?<p>It&#x27;s a similar argument to why I wouldn&#x27;t spend an hour a week going to church, just because someone else thought it would benefit me with little downside risk. Sure, it might, but I&#x27;d need more convincing before I decided to put the time in.