Why Do People Glamorize Being Overworked?
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We all know we need margin (or, in Christianese, Sabbath). And yet, we still give into societal pressure to fill our days. Important people are valuable people. Important people are also busy. Therefore, busy people are valuable. Busy-ness has become an excuse, a crutch. Steph and Beth mine their own lives to understand where this idea comes from. Was it TV? Did we learn it as children or did we pick it up in adulthood? Like our eyes need margin to process what we read in a book, our heart needs margin to process what we feel. How do we balance our desire to live a meaningful life with our need for margin? Do we really appreciate how the two are connected? Also, why did the people in Friends have so much free time? And is there a connection between their free time and the name of their favorite coffee shop? Does their time in Central Perk give time for what really matters to percolate to the surface?
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