Mike "Bagel"

Identification with a thing: be it a group, a sport team, an ideology, a political space, a job, you name it. Even your name, now that I mention it. You were a child and you shit your pants, but you don’t identify with that BECAUSE NONE OF IT IS PERMANENT. Get away from this obsessive need to fit in through identification, go and stand alone

We are told a story from a young age. We are taught to conform, to behave, to achieve, to become something. And in the end, we believe the greatest lie of all — that we are somehow not enough, that we must become rather than simply be ourselves.

But tell me — have you ever seen a green tree struggle to grow, or a beautiful flower struggle to bloom?

In most every other area of our economy, not only is productivity a well-defined concept, but it’s often central to how work unfolds. Indeed, much of the astonishing economic growth fueling modernity can be attributed to a more systematic treatment of this fundamental idea. Early uses of the term can be traced back to agriculture, where its meaning

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”— Vernon Howard