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What if we didn’t have to DO so much ?
The action fallacy
Why this unrelenting need for speed ? This bucket-list mentality ? This belief, as if it’s a certainty, that LOTS of things need to happen in this life for it to be full, meaningful, well-lived ?
Where’s the room for taking time ? For contemplation ? For staring at nothing without feeling guilty that we’re not doing anything ?
Why this immense pressure ? Where does it come from ?
2 sides of the coin of business
There are two seemingly conflicting narratives about work.
One is that work is busy. We hear of burnouts right left centre. People working 80 hour weeks and still struggling to fit everything in and needing to find more hours. Productivity hacks all around telling us how to gain a few seconds here and there so we can pack in more, more, always more.
And then there’s the other narrative that’s also true : business moves slowly. When we look at the big intiatives, the decisions, the big things that REALLY move the needle : they all boil down to a few decisions that have been made over a long stretch of time, that have taken time to be implemented and get results.
It’s a paradox. The paradox of hustling and being on the hamster wheel from hell…
