Corporate America has programmed people to HUSTLE! BE THE BEST! ACHIEVE! MAKE MORE MONEY!!! for so long that they now need to pay someone to come and teach us how to relax, enjoy the moment and be happy again.
Practice patience. Drive slow. Why is it so hard?
you should try reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
I know someone who can fix all of their stuff, and they can’t understand that book.
I was an efficiency whore while working management at a big software company.
It sucked in some very specific ways. I didn’t even realize the impact until after I left that environment.
There were some good things from corporate America, too, but they didn’t bring real ultimate power happiness.
But they only mean that we need to relax and enjoy hustling and being the best
Depressing and true.
I have been in the corporate desk jockey world for too long. So much of what people do every day in the white collar world is just performative bullshit. David Graeber wrote about it better than I can describe it.