Rest
by Brandon Dang · updated 2mo ago
Rest
- Put another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been taught to always strive for better, even if we have only the vaguest notion of what that “better” would look like, and even if it means viewing everything in our world as raw material that could potentially be utilized toward that end. But obedience to something outsid... See more
from Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail by Kelsey Osgood
Brandon Dang added 2mo ago
What sentence gives you goosebumps? Here's mine: "You waste years by not being able to waste hours." 13 thoughts on this trap: 1. A behaviour rewarded at school that punishes you later in life: Doing the work without asking why. 2. A behaviour punished at school that rewards you later in life: Asking "Why am I working on this?" 3. The busy tra... See moreBrandon Dang added 3mo ago
#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of
Brandon Dang added 3mo ago
The activity trap: The wrong things or very little have actually got done even tho things have been checked off
Michael Cassidy on LinkedIn: Mobility is a waste of time ...if you don't care about the quality of… | 133 comments
Brandon Dang added 3mo ago
Stretching: for those who can’t sit still/need to be doing something productive even when theyre resting
- Driven by ultra-capitalistic incentives, the incessant pursuit of productivity and perfection combined with external, never-ending stimuli results in burnout and anxiety, the symptoms of an overloaded nervous system.
from More Human Possible
Brandon Dang added 3mo ago
- The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elude... See more
from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
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“Linguistically, a duvet day feels gentle and generous, while rotting in bed conjures up a sense of decay, of life collapsing in on itself. Bed rotting doesn’t shy away from the sticky experience of staying in the same clothes all day or the lethargy that can come from lying down for hours on end.”
The grossness is the point — because, as O’Sullivan
... See morefrom Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
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The term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
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- I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See moreBrandon Dang added 3mo ago
- I’m sick n tired of being sick n tired. Working to exhaustion isn’t an inevitability of ambition. If we take breaks throughout the day, we’ll do better work, work on the right things, show up better, and at the end of the day feel less fried and have the space and energy to do the things we actually want to do instead of just collapsing.
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