Argument on leisure

My claim is that you can make better use of your leisure time by actively learning information or acquiring new skills rather than using it to “switch off” and recover from the day. I’m directing my focus toward my own generation and why they can influence their life much more in comparison to our parents with more life ahead of us that will be affected by our present habits. My broad encompassing reasons are that you are much more likely to be happy, accomplish what you want to do in life, and more attune and focused to the world around you.
Today’s generation expects instant gratification. This developed need, is spurned from the vast consumerism, easy accessibility to services, and false portrayal of lives on television that makes one’s life seem incomplete in comparison. I aim to convince them that this need, however much we abide by it, will serve us much better if we ignore it all together. After all, you can’t be disappointed if you never expected anything in the first place. I aim to convince them, that upon training oneself to delay gratification and to spend a majority of their free time towards productive life enhancing activities. Upon establishing these parameters, one will feel much more accomplished and view work as something to embrace, rather than despising it. Just knowingly pursuing something, and actively absorbing information and skills will generate much more satisfaction with life, leading to higher levels of happiness.
I will also aim to convince them by sharing how leisure time was viewed in the past, and how it has only recently opened up to the mass population. Like the Native Americans viewed all life as harmonious, and did things when they were supposed to be done. This led to more productivity and cultivation of oneself, and less feelings of boredom and disinterest to particular activities. If we view all of our actions in life as harmonious, none weighing more than the other, but a necessity that each objective be completed, we would never be slowed down by disinterest in an activity, or revert to instant gratification (food, sex, games) until necessary and appropriate. I will also bring in the theoretical frameworks and what evidence each holds true towards promoting oneself through active leisure rather than passive.
One reason I will use to back up leisure is better used in an active way is the correlation one study finds between those who read and their success rates, and those who don’t. This will be a definite incentive to cultivate oneself towards their success in the future. I could analogize this evidence to a probable outcome of one’s future based on the use of their leisure time. The cause and affect of my claim is quite clear. Whatever intellectual, physical, or emotional characteristics you presently have, can be improved through the active use of your leisure time.