Re:As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying '...
by kaycebasques on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:06AM
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I wrote a similar blog post [1] about why I'm taking a sabbatical and it's really fascinating to compare motivations.
> My thesis is that if I focus on enjoying the journey, everything else will follow.
I wrote:
> I don't have a single big project in mind for my sabbatical... I do have a single overarching theme, however: joie de vivre. Everything that I do, even the mundane stuff (especially the mundane stuff), I'm going to focus on enjoying it fully. How you do anything is how you do everything, as the Buddhists say. I have come to believe that the person who can enjoy whatever they're doing and make that joy contagious will actually end up accomplishing the most. Yet even if I don't accomplish anything, I'll still be joyful, so what would it matter anyways?
> My thesis is that if I focus on enjoying the journey, everything else will follow.
I wrote:
> I don't have a single big project in mind for my sabbatical... I do have a single overarching theme, however: joie de vivre. Everything that I do, even the mundane stuff (especially the mundane stuff), I'm going to focus on enjoying it fully. How you do anything is how you do everything, as the Buddhists say. I have come to believe that the person who can enjoy whatever they're doing and make that joy contagious will actually end up accomplishing the most. Yet even if I don't accomplish anything, I'll still be joyful, so what would it matter anyways?
[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue