Cult of Busy
on our obsession with productivity and unhealthy relationship with work
Keely Adler and
Cult of Busy
“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”
- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
Ancient Ritual
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Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them.
Clocks created a culture of anxiety.
Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
Another essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really means) to measure, manage and control the world. it's a way of colonizing time, which is in many ways even more insidious than colonizing space
If you observe a sabbath, this feeling is not unfamiliar. You are well-acquainted with what others think of as the awkward restraints of just being . You understand its essential, restorative purpose — and marvel at others’ allergy to it. Why are we so terrified of stillness? To be still is an invitation to reckon with our smallness, our powerlessn
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"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
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