Ashish Kothari explores why humans tie self-worth to productivity while animals simply exist. We fill every spare moment instead of resting, unlike other creatures that don't need to earn their right to be.
This has really always resonated with me, which is if you look at most animals, if you look at most things in our world around us, they seem to be quite content with being right. Yeah. I mean, they're in the moment. They're eating grass or out there sitting. They're in the moment. But when we think about humans, even though we call ourselves beings in the world we live in, I think we probably should be called human doings, because we don't like to just be. Because our whole sense of, to your point, worthiness is tied to achieving and doing things out there. So if I have 30 minutes, it's so amazing to me. Like, somebody would cancel a client meeting, and literally people are like, what can I fill that time with?
Yeah, totally. Got to use the time productively. Right?
Got to use the time productively.
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