I agree with all the points made here. The fact that we feel the need to assess every activity we engage in and every skill we aquire by metrics designed to measure professional and economic performance/success essentially prevents personal progress and growth instead of fostering it.
Exactly – and a perspective of that is, that the professional evaluation is moving in all directions, so when you push your personal wishes aside to pursuit those, you can easily end of having wasted the time, because business now wants something else instead.
Then it is important to have things in your life that aren't connected to any exterior goals, but solely represent something you feel for, something that will make you happy to work with.
We could call it a hobby, even though that sounds a bit like just spending time on something fun – there is no problem in that hobby actually moving forward. It just needs to be on your terms, and with you in the lead.
Whatever – waking up with the thought already on my mind from the very first second that I ought to do something else than what I want to do, is not good. It shows an unhealthy (lack of) balance in life. And I believe that many people experience that.
This is true, especially considering how fast-paced work environments continue to become. You're usually behind before you've even started...
Doing things for the sake of doing them is definitely the key to a fulfilling life... And, yes, I think one has better chances of it leading to "success", if that is not the focus while one does it...
I'm certain that having to do so much of what we don't want and so little of what we do is the main reason for imbalance in society as a whole.
You said that exactly right: we are behind before we even get started, and we never catch up, because the goals change all the time, so we must pursue a new one, and again, and again, always starting by being behind.
That is very unfulfilling for a human mind.
And the fast pace of society is a given, on that condition. The "fast" the refers to the speed by which we move, not the speed by which we develop anything, because most of the fastness is not leading to anything, it is just running on the spot.
And I fully agree with you that society would work better if people had more of their own thoughts and wishes involved in their decisions on how to spend their time – it would, mainly, lead to a less fluctuous life in the short term, but also to a broader coverage of topics in the longer term.
We would become mentally richer people, and more interesting to talk to, because we have passions, and knowledge about our passions. We are not behind on everything, but ahead on our selected topics.
And that, for once, will make it relevant to talk about a "personality" – a much abused word today that often just focuses on how well you adapt to the changing priorities of the business world – and how much behind you are.
I agree with all the points made here. The fact that we feel the need to assess every activity we engage in and every skill we aquire by metrics designed to measure professional and economic performance/success essentially prevents personal progress and growth instead of fostering it.
Exactly – and a perspective of that is, that the professional evaluation is moving in all directions, so when you push your personal wishes aside to pursuit those, you can easily end of having wasted the time, because business now wants something else instead.
Then it is important to have things in your life that aren't connected to any exterior goals, but solely represent something you feel for, something that will make you happy to work with.
We could call it a hobby, even though that sounds a bit like just spending time on something fun – there is no problem in that hobby actually moving forward. It just needs to be on your terms, and with you in the lead.
Whatever – waking up with the thought already on my mind from the very first second that I ought to do something else than what I want to do, is not good. It shows an unhealthy (lack of) balance in life. And I believe that many people experience that.
This is true, especially considering how fast-paced work environments continue to become. You're usually behind before you've even started...
Doing things for the sake of doing them is definitely the key to a fulfilling life... And, yes, I think one has better chances of it leading to "success", if that is not the focus while one does it...
I'm certain that having to do so much of what we don't want and so little of what we do is the main reason for imbalance in society as a whole.
You said that exactly right: we are behind before we even get started, and we never catch up, because the goals change all the time, so we must pursue a new one, and again, and again, always starting by being behind.
That is very unfulfilling for a human mind.
And the fast pace of society is a given, on that condition. The "fast" the refers to the speed by which we move, not the speed by which we develop anything, because most of the fastness is not leading to anything, it is just running on the spot.
And I fully agree with you that society would work better if people had more of their own thoughts and wishes involved in their decisions on how to spend their time – it would, mainly, lead to a less fluctuous life in the short term, but also to a broader coverage of topics in the longer term.
We would become mentally richer people, and more interesting to talk to, because we have passions, and knowledge about our passions. We are not behind on everything, but ahead on our selected topics.
And that, for once, will make it relevant to talk about a "personality" – a much abused word today that often just focuses on how well you adapt to the changing priorities of the business world – and how much behind you are.