Rest
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.comThe term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
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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... 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
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.
More Human Possible
We aren’t necessarily being forced to work harder, but the incentives are dangled out in front of us, so we convince ourselves it will be “worth it” (i.e. working late nights bc thats what gets recognized at the yearly review)
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