Work Life Balance is Impossible - by Nat Eliason
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The nobler goal of life bucket integration
Philippe Petit wire-walking between the World Trade Centers in 1974, a slightly less impossible balancing act. source Attempts at “Work-Life Balance” are doomed before they start. The term “balance” suggests there’s some invisible scale held aloft by Father Time on which we need to allocate grains of sand between our Work and Life buckets. Too much on one side, and the scale tips, sending us careening towards unemployment or a Pez-dispenser of Xanax. Confronted with this dichotomy, we consume endless media clawing for a solution to our frenetic see-saw of priorities, looking around each…
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