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It'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'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'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't lie on our death bed bemoaning that we didn't work harder/longer. And yet we can'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
