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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
—Viktor Frankl
Work hard and go home
https://money.cnn.com/2015/11/30/pf/slack-work-life-balance/index.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/02/hard-times-dont-make-strong-soldiers-warrior-myth/
To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery so depleted that it can’t be recharged. In people, unlike batteries, it is said to produce the defining symptoms of “burnout syndrome”: exhaustion, cynicism, and loss of efficacy.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/burnout-modern-affliction-or-human-condition
A century ago, to live was essentially to have to put effort into life. Most jobs at the time, around 85 percent of them, required a lot of manual labor. And now I think only 10 percent do.
As we’ve sort of engineered movement out of our life, moving is now really uncomfortable
Pretend you are walking along a trail, he explained, and there is a cliff in 500 yards. The catch: The cliff is death and we will all walk off it. “Buddha died. Jesus died. You will die. I will die. I would like to die on that bed,” said the Khenpo, pointing to a twin mattress on the floor.
“Don’t you want to know that there’s a cliff?” he asked. Because only then can we change our course...
https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Crisis-Embrace-Discomfort-Reclaim/dp/0593138767
An old man meets a young man who asks:
“Do you remember me?”
And the old man says no. Then the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks:
“What do you do, what do you do in life?”
The young man answers:
“Well, I became a teacher.”
“ah, how good, like me?” Asks the old man.
“Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you...
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. - Tom Waits
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/27/the-clockwork-universe-is-free-will-an-illusion