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It& #39;s kind of scary how obsessed some people are with the amount of hours they work. Is it too banal to say that life-value ≠ amount of work? I& #39;d even argue life-value ≠ productivity for most of us. 1/7
Hardly anyone gets to be truly passionate about what they do for a living. And that& #39;s fine, we should be honest about that and not treat it as some sort of failure! How new and insane an idea it is that your work should be your true calling. 2/7
Really we all know we won& #39;t lie on our death bed bemoaning that we didn& #39;t work harder/longer. And yet we can& #39;t seem to stop ourselves. We should do more sitting around and doing nothing. And also not take pictures of ourselves looking sexy doing it. 3/7
Listen to this crusty chap in his crusty essay In Praise of Idleness: "A great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work... A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive... 4/7
...love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful... 5/7
it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable." 6/7
Remind me to delete this thread when I interview for a job. 7/7
