The books seems interesting, thanks for sharing
Edit: watched it, seems to be Korean or American. As a European, while the pressure for productivity is still there, being able to enjoy your life, including days off and vacation, is still a thing.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
9 points (90.9% liked)
Eudaimonia
231 readers
1 users here now
A community about happy living. Thoughts and praxis about long-term wellbeing, contentment, and personal fulfillment.
A place to post profound, preferably long-form thoughts and discussions about such concepts which might not easily fit in other communities.
Probably will remain just a community for the admin to post stuff they found interesting, but feel free to post some stuff you find that matches or start discussions.
Rules
- No memes
- No toxic "wholesome" content.
- No smug, "dunking" or "better than thou" posts about others. (Community is meant to focus on personal improvement and fulfillment, not negativity and how we're doing it better.)
- No woo-woo, spiritualism and religion. (Community is not about spiritualism and new age mumbo-jumbo and things like "The Secret". It's a purely materialistic and secular space.)
Related
founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
The point is that even many Europeans use vacation just to be more productive later instead of just enjoying life. It's a corruption of leisure time.
If I have some time, I'll try to look up some stats on that. From anecdotal evidence around me, once people reach 30-35, they start considering work as just work, and focus their priorities to family and private time.
In the Netherlands for instance it's quite usual for fathers to switch to 4 days a week once they have children.
for me personally, i really dislike externally applied sources of work. I really enjoy internally applied sources of work.
In fact it's like the primary thing i do in my freetime when i have energy, i just like to exert myself and apply my neuron capacity to something while i have the ability to do so. I think it's sort of innate to the human experience that we must be doing something, why do we exist otherwise. We exist to exert ourselves in the pursuance of our goals, arbitrary or not, that is why we are here, and that is what we must engage in, lest we become undefinable organisms without purpose.
The ultimate question here naturally, is what you end up doing with that. That's the hard part of the question.
Most of the modern world seems to be built in some capacity, if not entirely to exploit this function of ourselves, for our own gain. Which is definitely an interesting idea, though not my cup of tea philosophically.