Rest
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... See more
Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play

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... See more
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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Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.comI 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... See more
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of... See more
#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of
open.spotify.comThe activity trap: The wrong things or very little have actually got done even tho things have been checked off
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