Rest
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.com“Linguistically, a duvet day feels gentle and generous, while rotting in bed conjures up a sense of decay, of life collapsing in on itself. Bed rotting doesn’t shy away from the sticky experience of staying in the same clothes all day or the lethargy that can come from lying down for hours on end.”
The grossness is the point — because, as O’Sullivan
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
I’m sick n tired of being sick n tired. Working to exhaustion isn’t an inevitability of ambition. If we take breaks throughout the day, we’ll do better work, work on the right things, show up better, and at the end of the day feel less fried and have the space and energy to do the things we actually want to do instead of just collapsing.
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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
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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
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)
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Stretching: for those who can’t sit still/need to be doing something productive even when theyre resting