The 'Busy' Trap - NYTimes.com
Great read. Pop culture's noisy self-inflicted busy lifestyle is maybe not as great as advertised. I like where he's coming from.
I've often reflected on expanding capitalism: Starbucks, McDonalds, pollution, and $200-an-hour therapists crammed side-by-side all up and down the concretized banks of the entire stretches of the Nile and Amazon, and any undeveloped regions. Yuck.
Kreider offers an EXCELLENT take on the current American (and elsewhere) Zeitgeist. No direction or finish-line, all running.
Let's envision and participate in more meaningful, sustainable, deep and personal life content. Less busy noise. 4-day workweek? Sane and rewarding rhythm of life? We can help create them.
"Almost everyone I know is busy. They feel anxious and guilty when they aren’t either working or doing something to promote their work. They schedule in time with friends the way students with 4.0 G.P.A.’s make sure to sign up for community service because it looks good on their college applications.
It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this; it’s something we collectively force one another to do.
I also feel that four or five hours is enough to earn my stay on the planet for one more day. On the best ordinary days of my life, I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day.
...Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed...."
Great read. Pop culture's noisy self-inflicted busy lifestyle is maybe not as great as advertised. I like where he's coming from.
I've often reflected on expanding capitalism: Starbucks, McDonalds, pollution, and $200-an-hour therapists crammed side-by-side all up and down the concretized banks of the entire stretches of the Nile and Amazon, and any undeveloped regions. Yuck.
Kreider offers an EXCELLENT take on the current American (and elsewhere) Zeitgeist. No direction or finish-line, all running.
Let's envision and participate in more meaningful, sustainable, deep and personal life content. Less busy noise. 4-day workweek? Sane and rewarding rhythm of life? We can help create them.
"Almost everyone I know is busy. They feel anxious and guilty when they aren’t either working or doing something to promote their work. They schedule in time with friends the way students with 4.0 G.P.A.’s make sure to sign up for community service because it looks good on their college applications.
It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this; it’s something we collectively force one another to do.
I also feel that four or five hours is enough to earn my stay on the planet for one more day. On the best ordinary days of my life, I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day.
...Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed...."
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