If You Don’t Commit to Meaningful Work, Life Will Fill Your Time with Busywork
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Life abhors a vacuum.
Life abhors a vacuum. If you don’t decide what matters, the world will decide for you, and the world isn’t gentle, wise, or aligned with your soul. It’s noisy. It’s restless. It pushes you toward the urgent, not the important. Toward distraction, not depth. Toward maintenance, not meaning. Naval’s line, “If you don’t commit to meaningful work, life will fill your time with busywork,” is a reminder of a quiet truth: your time will never stay empty. Something will always come in. The choice is whether it’s chosen by you, or assigned to you by circumstance, employers, algorithms, or the…
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