May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends _ passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting it all behind us _ rather than the present-moment experience of actually learning. As employees, we want the work to be over as soon as it begins. Work culture is driven by quotas, billable hours, budgets, and Gantt charts _ bottom lines of any sort. The value is always somewhere ahead of you, rather than here right now, in the room with you. We__e perpetually looking ahead to a payday or a weekend or some other kind of finish line. Virtually every day of our lives, we__e trained to lean towards something we don__ have, which essentially trains us to be dissatisfied with where we already are.
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Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends _ passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting it all behind us _ rather than the present-moment experience of actually learning. As employees, we want the work to be over as soon as it begins. Work culture is driven by quotas, billable hours, budgets, and Gantt charts _ bottom lines of any sort. The value is always somewhere ahead of you, rather than here right now, in the room with you. We__e perpetually looking ahead to a payday or a weekend or some other kind of finish line. Virtually every day of our lives, we__e trained to lean towards something we don__ have, which essentially trains us to be dissatisfied with where we already are.
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