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Transcending the Rat Race - by Sherry Ning - Pluripotent

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Our culture likes escapism: First, we quit our jobs to escape from offices. Then, we make our own jobs to escape from freedom. We leave one cage only to find ourselves in another, some completely made by our own hands. Under the compulsion of performance and production, freedom is impossible. The solopreneur who quits his job to work for himself becomes the controller of his productivity, tyrannizing himself through optimization. Solopreneurship is not enough; those unable to break free from competition remain trapped in the pursuit of this thing called freedom. We can ditch our managers, offices, or professions, but any horizontal leap will only land us on another treadmill. Resignation does not liberate us from the rat race. The ultimate escape—transcendence—is vertical, not horizontal. Otherwise, our individuality will be used for anything but our own good. I was working at a consulting firm this time last year. I remember a colleague saying to me (at happy hour), If you think about

The great resignation has freed some of us back into shackles. Our culture likes escapism: First, we quit our jobs to escape from offices. Then, we make our own jobs to escape from freedom. We leave one cage only to find ourselves in another, some completely made by our own hands. Under the compulsion of performance and production, freedom is impossible. The solopreneur who quits his job to work for himself becomes the controller of his productivity, tyrannizing himself through optimization. Solopreneurship is not enough; those unable to break free from competition remain trapped in the…

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