Rest
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
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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 more
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
Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
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.
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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)
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.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
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open.spotify.comThe activity trap: The wrong things or very little have actually got done even tho things have been checked off
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
Kelsey Osgood • Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail
The case for spirituality as a fundamental choice over a self-improvement treadmill. Obedience feels like a strange word here but it feels like theres truth in the sentiment