Ashish Kothari long believed work-life balance was impossible and practiced integration instead. Research shows segmenters, who keep work and personal life separate, are equally valid. He now tailors advice to each person rather than pushing integration on everyone.
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No, I love that. Look, here's where you changed my mind in this chapter. You know, I always, I don't believe in work-life balance. And I've always said, I don't believe in work-life balance. I believe in work-life integration. Because, you know, for me, my life and my work are one thing. What you highlighted from your research was, yeah, that's great, Ashish. You are an integrator, but not everybody is an integrator. For some people, they are segmenters. And by the way, they're actually equally good. At getting their work done versus integrators. So I want you to, you know, disaggregate that concept of segmenters versus integrators because it really made me rethink how I kind of make sense of the world and what I invite people to go become, which I'm not going to ask them