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I’ve a couple of reactions to this meme that I hope readers will discover significant:
Work, in the best context, is definitely nearer to play. I’m reminded of what Dustin Hoffman mentioned, “I’m a horrible vacationer. I have a look at a seaside sundown and picture how I might characterize it to a movie viewers.”
Right here’s what I advised my children once they had been younger, although I don’t counsel that it’s an unique concept: “You’re going to be spending a big proportion of your waking hours doing one thing that’s known as ‘work.’ So discover one thing you like, and get damned good at it.”
And here’s what certainly one of my philosophy professors advised me as a younger man: “I’ve a life that I get pleasure from 52 weeks a 12 months. It by no means occurred to me to have a life I dislike in order that I can take a two-week trip from it.”
