Most individuals likely remember their youth as a time of hands-on creativity — from coloring with crayons and imagining action figure battles as a child to strumming guitars and sleepover craft projects as a teenager.
While those things aren’t necessarily obsolete in today’s world, a much larger share of the average young person’s time is spent more idly — that is, staring into a phone, scrolling through social media, and being more passive than active in entertaining themselves.