We know when we work too much—we just don’t know what to do about it.
Whether we love or hate our job, it’s easy to become consumed by it and destroy our work-life balance in the process.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
“I use the bathroom and shuffle back to bed, wondering what I should do. Normally if I woke up feeling like this, I would go to the emergency room. But no one at the hospital will have seen symptoms of having been in space for a year.”
“There are ways to work at a job you don’t like without complaining every day. Try and seek the advantages and the lessons you can learn.”
“One of the things that happens to girls is that they are encroached upon by the world. And one of the things that humor can do is…help girls stand up for themselves in ways that people don’t retaliate for.”
“You no longer enter the Internet the way you would a public library, where you browse and pick out what you want to read in peace, it’s more like the Las Vegas strip, where you’re bombarded with demands for your attention and need not exert any effort to be entertained.”
“Most people are making the ‘wrong’ kind of money right now. The wrong money is any money earned while doing tasks that are irrelevant to your Big Goals.”
“You don’t take a good photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
“I often don’t know what I’m looking for, and even if I do, what I actually find is more often than not better than what I set out to find.”
“People don’t know what anything is worth, so we need clues. But stores control the clues we see.”
“Whether it’s play, visiting places like junk shops, constraining ourselves (the exact position we found ourselves in), experiencing working with others — all these leading Creatives are making time for new experiences. Creativity doesn’t flow from sitting head down at a desk.”