Play Slow
What would it mean to live more playfully? First, it would require us to reject work that is not intrinsically motivating and to build working conditions that are joyfully engaging. Second, it would require that we de-emphasise the importance of work for finding personal fulfilment and meaning in our lives. Despite work being central to who we are
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Whatever we had in mind (consciously or subconsciously) isn’t what’s happening. Instead, it’s more difficult, overwhelming, or dull than we’d envisioned.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
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“The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way”
– Steven Bartlett
In his work ‘On the Meaning of Life’ (1927), Schlick writes: ‘[T]he deification of work as such, the great gospel of our industrial age, has been exposed as idolatry.’ He argues that true meaning in life can be found only in those things that ‘exist for their own sake and carry their satisfaction in themselves,’ only in ‘free, purposeless action …
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Das neuzeitliche Pathos des Neuen löst das Sein in den Prozess auf. Unter den Bedingungen des Neuen ist kein kontemplatives Leben möglich. Kontemplation ist Wiederholung. Das Pathos des Handelns, das sich nun mit der Emphase des Neuen verbindet, setzt viel Unruhe in die Welt.