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- The Cult Of Busy - By Dina Kaplan
Link to article: The Cult of Busy Busy can become a way of life. We’re seduced by all the incoming – the emails and text messages that make us feel wanted and important — stimulating our dopamine, as research shows, but in an exhausting,...
- Seneca Quote
“The condition of all men who are busy with other things is wretched, but most wretched is that of men who busy themselves energetically in pursuits that are not even their own, who sleep to suit another's sleeping pattern, who walk to suit another's...
- Weekly Roundup - June 21, 2014
As usual it was a busy, busy week with work. There were lots of issues which led to us having to change out tools a bunch of times this past week and to top it off I picked up a bit of a head cold on Tuesday and been fighting it ever since. Is it...
- Weekly Roundup - January 18, 2014
It was yet another busy week for myself. I had to head back to work and away from home Monday afternoon. And of course that meant lots of work right away and then drill then a break and then lots of work again. But this just continues to reinforce...
- Weekly Roundup - January 12, 2014
The first full week of 2014 has now flown by and it sure was a busy one for me. We finished drilling another well and I was able to head home early Thursday morning. I finally got home around 4 am and promptly crashed in bed with my wife for an hour...
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The ‘Busy’ Trap
If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to have,” or “Better than the opposite.”
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: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.
- The Cult Of Busy - By Dina Kaplan
Link to article: The Cult of Busy Busy can become a way of life. We’re seduced by all the incoming – the emails and text messages that make us feel wanted and important — stimulating our dopamine, as research shows, but in an exhausting,...
- Seneca Quote
“The condition of all men who are busy with other things is wretched, but most wretched is that of men who busy themselves energetically in pursuits that are not even their own, who sleep to suit another's sleeping pattern, who walk to suit another's...
- Weekly Roundup - June 21, 2014
As usual it was a busy, busy week with work. There were lots of issues which led to us having to change out tools a bunch of times this past week and to top it off I picked up a bit of a head cold on Tuesday and been fighting it ever since. Is it...
- Weekly Roundup - January 18, 2014
It was yet another busy week for myself. I had to head back to work and away from home Monday afternoon. And of course that meant lots of work right away and then drill then a break and then lots of work again. But this just continues to reinforce...
- Weekly Roundup - January 12, 2014
The first full week of 2014 has now flown by and it sure was a busy one for me. We finished drilling another well and I was able to head home early Thursday morning. I finally got home around 4 am and promptly crashed in bed with my wife for an hour...