We're burned out. Here's why.

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Résumé

TLDRDe video onderzoekt burn-out, een groeiend probleem dat velen parten speelt. Burn-out wordt gekarakteriseerd door emotionele uitputting, depersonalisatie en een gevoel van persoonlijke ineffectiviteit, vaak veroorzaakt door werk dat als zinloos wordt ervaren, de zogenaamde 'bullshit jobs'. De oorsprong van het begrip gaat terug naar de jaren 1980, toen psycholoog Freudenberger het introduceerde. Sociologen, zoals David Graeber en filosofen zoals Byung-Chul Han, hebben het fenomeen verder uitgewerkt. Han beschrijft onze maatschappij als een 'prestatiemaatschappij' die overmatige productiviteit en positiviteit eist, wat leidt tot constante stress. Bertrand Russell stelt dat het leren van ledigheid en contemplatie ons kan helpen burn-out te bestrijden. Organisaties zoals 80,000 Hours bieden strategieën en hulpmiddelen om betekenisvolle carrières te plannen en te focussen op werk dat een positief verschil maakt.

A retenir

  • 📉 Burn-out is een groeiend fenomeen, met veel mensen die aangeven zich uitgeput en zinloos te voelen in hun werk.
  • 🧠 Psycholoog Freudenberger beschreef burn-out als gevolg van stress en perfectionisme, wat werd bevestigd door modern onderzoek.
  • 📚 De term 'burn-out' kreeg populariteit in de jaren 1980 door Freudenbergers boek.
  • 😔 'Bullshit jobs' dragen bij aan een gevoel van zinloosheid en persoonlijke ineffectiviteit.
  • 🔄 Byung-Chul Han beschrijft de samenleving als een 'prestatiemaatschappij' die overmatige positiviteit en productiviteit eist.
  • 📊 Onderzoek toont aan dat veel werknemers hun werk als maatschappelijk irrelevant beschouwen.
  • 🕰️ Bertrand Russell stelt voor om meer tijd te nemen voor ledigheid en taken voor het eigen belang.
  • 🤔 Verveling kan creatieve en reflectieve processen bevorderen.
  • 💡 Filosofen benadrukken de waarde van contemplatie en intrinsiek waardevolle activiteiten.
  • 👩‍💻 Organisaties zoals 80,000 Hours bieden tools om impactvolle en zinvolle carrières te plannen.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Burn-out rates stijgen, wat mensen frustreert en motiveert om van baan te veranderen of hun werk te verlaten. De term "burn-out" werd populair in de jaren 80 na het werk van psycholoog Freudenberger, die het fenomeen definieerde als een reactie op stress, perfectionisme en frustratie. Volgens psychologen zoals Lori Santos omvatten signalen van burn-out emotionele uitputting, depersonalisatie en een gevoel van persoonlijke ineffectiviteit. Werken in zinloze banen, zoals beschreven door antropoloog David Graeber, kan bijdragen aan deze gevoelens van nutteloosheid en burn-out.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:08

    Volgens filosoof Byung-Chul Han leven we in een samenleving gericht op prestaties, wat ons continu drijft tot productiviteit en perfectionisme, wat burn-out in de hand werkt. Han ziet overmatige positiviteit als een kernprobleem, terwijl andere denkers zoals Bertrand Russell pleiten voor het herontdekken van ledigheid en contemplatie als medicijn tegen burn-out. Burn-out ontstaat niet alleen door werk, maar ook door een gebrek aan tijd voor zinvolle of vrije activiteiten die buiten de prestatiecultuur vallen. Nieuwe initiatieven zoals 80,000 Hours moedigen mensen aan om een carrière te plannen met een positieve impact.

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Vidéo Q&R

  • Wat zijn de drie kenmerken van burn-out?

    Volgens psycholoog Lori Santos zijn de drie kenmerken van burn-out: emotionele uitputting, depersonalisatie en een gevoel van persoonlijke ineffectiviteit.

  • Waarom voelen mensen zich vaak nutteloos in hun werk?

    Dit komt door het idee van 'bullshit jobs', banen die als zinloos of onnodig worden gezien, waarbij werknemers het gevoel hebben dat hun werk geen bijdrage levert aan de maatschappij.

  • Wat is een 'bullshit job'?

    Een 'bullshit job' is een baan waarvan de werknemer niet geloof dat het werk enig significant doel of sociale bijdrage heeft, ondanks dat ze dit misschien wel moeten doen alsof dit wel zo is.

  • Hoe draagt een prestatiegerichte maatschappij bij aan burn-out?

    In een prestatiemaatschappij proberen mensen continu meer te bereiken en staat productiviteit centraal, wat leidt tot stress, uitputting en een gevoel van zinloosheid.

  • Wat is het idee van Byung-Chul Han over burn-out?

    Han stelt dat we in een 'burn-out maatschappij' leven waarin overmatige positiviteit en streven naar continue productiviteit centraal staan, wat ons emotioneel en fysiek uitput.

  • Wat is een mogelijke oplossing voor burn-out volgens filosofen?

    Filosofen zoals Bertrand Russell pleiten voor meer ledigheid en contemplatie, wat de mogelijkheid biedt om taken te doen die intrinsiek waardevol zijn.

  • Hoe kan verveling bijdragen aan een beter leven?

    Verveling biedt de kans om te ontsnappen aan constante stimulatie en productiviteit, wat kan leiden tot meer creativiteit en tijd voor persoonlijke reflectie.

  • Wat waren de bevindingen van de psycholoog Freudenberger over burn-out?

    Freudenberger zag burn-out als een reactie op stress, frustratie en perfectionisme, wat leidde tot emotionele uitputting en het verlies van vreugde.

  • Wat suggereert 80,000 Hours voor een betekenisvolle carrière?

    Zij adviseren over hoe je een positieve impact kunt maken met je carrière, inclusief het identificeren van urgente problemen en concrete planning voor een impactvolle loopbaan.

  • Welke rol speelt gedwongen optimisme in burn-out?

    Gedwongen optimisme verhoogt de druk om positieve resultaten te zien, wat juist kan bijdragen aan gevoelens van uitputting en wanhoop.

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    freudenberger described burnout like
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    it's a response to a demand that an
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    psychologists started to get a bit more
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    rigorous in how they described burnout
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    the Yale psychologist Lori Santos breaks
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    out when you feel emotionally exhausted
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    so you can't handle any more burdens the
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    metaphor that Santos uses is a house of
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    cards if there's even one more more
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    burden or one more piece of stress added
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    to your life the whole thing is going to
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    collapse the second sign is
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    depersonalization this is when you start
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    to be cynical you start to question
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    people's intentions and
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    depersonalization also gets in the way
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    of forming authentic human connections
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    isn't going to matter you can't change
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    anything that last part I think is
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    really at the heart of the issue there's
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    a reason so many of us feel burned out
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    especially about work and it's because
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    matter that's an idea that was
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    Graber Graber came up with a term for
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    pernicious that even the employee cannot
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    justify its existence even though as
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    part of the conditions of employment the
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    employee feels obliged to pretend this
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    is not the case and this idea of Graber
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    it really resonated with people Graber
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    put this idea out there in a really
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    small online magazine called strike and
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    when it was released it went viral I
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    describing these pointless jobs
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    well people thought that reflected their
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    experiences in one ugv poll 37% of
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    people said that their jobs were
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    meaningless or specifically they said
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    their jobs weren't contributing meaning
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    mean f to society so we don't lose sight
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    of the plot here let me break out how a
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    job might be related to burnout
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    burnout seems to partly stem from a
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    sense of futility like nothing that you
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    huge part of your waking hours working a
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    job that you think doesn't accomplish
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    anything then it's not hard to see how
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    you would think that in general your
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    life is futile no matter what you do
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    nothing's going to change and nothing's
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    going to get better Graber is often
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    criticized for some of the examples that
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    actuaries turns out actually an actuary
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    is kind of a useful job and it might
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    that their jobs are quite useful so they
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    don't really meet the conditions of
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    being a job like graper would
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    say but some sociologists have tried to
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    thesis and they found something a lot of
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    people do think their jobs are
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    expected it's people often who work in
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    things like Transportation or shipping
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    these are jobs that are characterized by
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    monotony no matter what you do you're
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    going to basically do the same thing
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    tomorrow you do the same thing over and
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    over and over and over and over and
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    over I actually once had a seasonal job
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    working at UPS uh my whole job was to
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    grab packages as they were coming down a
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    conveyor belt and then put them onto
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    trucks and there's something really
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    it's like as if you barely put a dent in
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    went to work at some tech companies I
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    actually often felt the same cuz it felt
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    like we were always bouncing from
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    pretend that we were excited about some
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    big new corporate initiative even though
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    like we all knew it wasn't going to make
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    a difference oh great they've come up
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    with like some brand new metric in order
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    to measure our performance but it turns
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    out everything's exactly the same it's
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    just that the format of my quarterly
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    evaluation has changed slightly and we
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    all have to pretend like it matters
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    everyone that I knew and talked to about
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    this was very cynical even if management
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    sort of wanted us to pretend otherwise
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    we were all like Copus but instead of
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    pushing Boulders up a hill we were
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    sitting behind laptops and going to
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    meetings and kind of just getting by and
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    at least a lot of people that I knew
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    they felt burned out and they felt
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    burned out because we felt like we
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    weren't ever accomplishing something of
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    course burnouts not just limited to our
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    jobs it can actually in
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    all of our lives and that's because as
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    one philosopher puts it we live in a
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    burnout
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    Society that's the title of this book by
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    the philosopher B CH Han despite this
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    being a really short book Han's ideas
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    are quite dense and so I just feel
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    compelled to pause the video and say hey
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    you should go and read this book you
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    could probably read it in an afternoon
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    and get a sense of it and it'll do more
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    for you than watching this YouTube video
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    at the core of Hans analysis is this
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    idea that we live in an achievement
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    Society in this Society we are
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    constantly striving to do more we want
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    to achieve more we want to produce more
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    and on top of that we always feel like
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    we have to think positively about it so
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    Han says that the root of our problem
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    isn't negativity it it's actually excess
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    positivity now if you take a quick look
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    at some management websites when they
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    talk about burnout they always tell you
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    to just change your mindset and try to
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    be more optimistic about the future but
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    if Han is right that is exactly wrong
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    it's actually that kind of forced
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    positivity that makes us feel more
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    burned out in the long run and that's
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    really similar to what freudenberger
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    said at the top of the video it's that
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    drive towards perfectionism achievement
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    and productivity we never let ourselves
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    stop being productive we always want to
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    do more in fact even when we do things
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    for fun we often rationalize it or
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    justify it because we say it's going to
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    recharge our batteries so that then we
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    can go back and do even better work the
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    philosopher bertran Russell puts it this
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    way the modern man thinks that
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    everything ought to be done for the sake
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    of something else and never for its own
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    sake and Han and Russell following in a
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    long line of philosophers would say that
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    if we want to counteract burnout and
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    this sense of futility in the world we
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    have to learn how to be idle again we
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    like to use idleness as an insult we say
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    things like Idle Hands are the devil's
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    workshop but in the ancient world like
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    say in the world of Aristotle Plato
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    idleness was actually seen as important
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    to a good life because when you're Idol
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    that's when you have time to contemplate
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    and contemplation is the best kind of
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    Life at least According to Aristotle now
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    for someone like Aristotle contemplation
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    basically meant being like a philosopher
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    scientist for many people that's not
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    their idea of the best sort of life but
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    buron wrestle has a slightly broader
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    view of what one could do in your idle
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    time it's when you're free from the
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    necessity of work where you don't have
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    to work in order to meet your needs or
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    to live a decent life and you also don't
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    feel driven to do anything except for
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    its own sake you just end up doing
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    things that matter because they matter
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    some people would just use all of their
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    Idol time their Leisure Time To Have Fun
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    more to relax but Russell thought that
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    for a lot of people they would use it to
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    explore the universe or to produce great
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    art or to perfect their craft because
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    they cared about it they'd be able to
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    look at what they were doing and they
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    could see that it was good and thus they
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    wouldn't really feel burnout it just
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    wouldn't apply doesn't mean they
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    couldn't get frustrated it's just that
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    burnout wouldn't really apply but in our
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    world that's hard to do you know B Johan
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    says that we need to learn to be bored
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    and it turns out just sitting around and
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    being bored is really hard when we're so
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    used to a world of constant stimulation
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    and a world of constant productivity but
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    maybe learning how to be bored is that
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    first step towards learning how to be
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    Idol and actually using our time well
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Tags
  • burn-out
  • werkstress
  • bullshit jobs
  • prestatiemaatschappij
  • mentale gezondheid
  • emotionele uitputting
  • perfectionisme
  • zingeving
  • ledigheid
  • betekenisvolle carrière