![]() We tend to think that people going back through history have always worked hard, and they did, but they also knew how to have balance. So what was the point of working so late? But the problem was she never got ahead, the list kept getting longer and never emptied. The to-do list in her head was never complete and she would justify working until 10 o’clock at night so that she could “get ahead”. Celeste says for the longest time she felt the same way too. So many of us, myself included, have a hard time taking time away from work, resting, and not thinking about what else we have to get done. The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” ![]() There was formerly a capacity for lightheartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency. In so far as this is true in the modern world it is a condemnation of our civilization it would not have been true at any earlier period. “It will be said that while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of twenty four. There is a quote from Bertand Russell that Celeste included in her book, Do Nothing and it is such a great quote. ![]()
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