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Work Life Balance is Impossible
My response is less “Don’t worry, we all struggle to figure it out,” and more “Don’t worry, balance doesn’t exist.”
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
The need for work-life balance hints that there has to be a trade-off and that work cannot be fulfilling. It is predicated on two assumptions: 1) Work and life are distinct entities, and 2) The “life” elements are equally, if not more, important than the work elements
The current understanding of work-life balance is too simplistic. People find it hard to balance work with family, family with self, because it might not be a question of balance. Some other dynamic is in play, something to do with a very human attempt at happiness that does not quantify different parts of life and then set them against one... See more