After a thirty-year study of time diaries, two sociologists found that Americans were actually working fewer hours than we did in the 1960s, but we feel as if we’re working more. We have the sense, too often, of running at top speed and never being able to catch up.
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We’ve lost our Sundays, our weekends, our nights off — our holy days, as some would have it; our bosses, junk mailers, our parents can find us wherever we are, at any time of day or night. More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.
Morer here – Farnam Street
From elsewhere in the article: “The idea behind choosing to sit still long enough to learn about yourself is simple and has been around for ages.”
But I might learn that I’m not actually the person that (for years) I’d like to think that I am!
That feels so terrifyingly naked ….. and yet it’s so interesting – in terms of the possibilities of making improvements …..