Busyness leads to bad decisions
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#2"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive."
I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
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#3"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid.
It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break. Some people do not perceive this, they're either workaholics or aboulics. Tiredness and boredom are good things evolved to prevent damaging ourselves.
If you ignore these you get burnout on one end, but no idea what is the opposite called.
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#4"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid. It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break. Some people do not perceive this, they're either workaholics or aboulics. Tiredness and boredom are good things evolved to prevent damaging ourselves. If you ignore these you get burnout on one end, but no idea what is the opposite called.
It is perfectly fine to be idle and bored; lay on grass and watch clouds or just do fishing...
Not everyone comes from puritan american culture.
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#5"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid. It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break. Some people do not perceive this, they're either workaholics or aboulics. Tiredness and boredom are good things evolved to prevent damaging ourselves. If you ignore these you get burnout on one end, but no idea what is the opposite called.
> The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid [...] It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break.
Nope, there's a hidden axis you're implicitly ignoring. It's possible to be active and "in flow" doing something without feeling "busy". So it's not just a 1-dimensional spectrum of whether one is idle or doing things, but also the psyche/attitude experienced when doing those things. The corresponding analogue to idleness is "leisure", where it is possible to enjoy idling or acting without coherent purpose.
It takes a particular kind of anemic perspective to ignore the experiential axis, and just consider the axis corresponding to "things done" or "output produced".
For a more detailed exposition on what goes into achieving a "flow" state, I recommend checking out Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's book titled Flow. For more on "leisure", I recommend Bertrand Russell's essay In praise of idleness.
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#6"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid. It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break. Some people do not perceive this, they're either workaholics or aboulics. Tiredness and boredom are good things evolved to prevent damaging ourselves. If you ignore these you get burnout on one end, but no idea what is the opposite called.
It is perfectly fine to be idle and bored; lay on grass and watch clouds or just do fishing... Not everyone comes from puritan american culture.
Not every American feels like it isn’t okay to be idle and bored. I guess you haven’t been following the real noise about moving to a four day workweek in America. Can we leave the sweeping, judgmental comments on the drawing room floor?
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#8"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
Exactly, best inner-feeling I have is when I know I don't have to do anything, literally anything. So I know I can do whatever I want.
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#9"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
I suspect 'humans' is an attempt to avoid stereotyping/sexism - but some people certainly do if not enjoy actually being busy, enjoy talking about how busy they are and how little time they have.
i.e. the enjoyment I think is in projecting a certain image of oneself; not necessarily actually embodying that image.
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#10"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
> I have never enjoyed feeling busy.
Clearly, you are not manager material.
Managers like to flaunt their busyness. It's their essence, their halo.