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Make Self-Care Your Competitive Advantage
- ahelwer 9y ago> The term "self-care" gets thrown around a lot these days, and is often used to describe getting enough sleep and exercise, eating clean, maybe throwing in some meditation for good measure. And yes, all of those things are good and helpful for keeping your mind and body on track. But we want to offer a more expansive definition. Self-care is about harnessing your energy for productive good. Chalk up another life-improvement method being co-opted by neoliberal ideology, similar to the wholehearted embrace and corruption of mindfulness by corporations who want to extract as much value from their employees as possible[0]. Life is about so, so much more than productivity optimization. [0] http://www.salon.com/2015/09/27/corporate_mindfulness_is_bullsht_zen_or_no_zen_youre_working_harder_and_being_paid_less/ http://www.salon.com/2015/09/27/corporate_mindfulness_is_bul...
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThere is a Taylorism for everything.
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- kyleschiller 9y agoYeah I'm with you on this, the moment we call self-care a "competitive advantage" it stops being self-care entirely and reverts to just being another "productivity hack"
- danharaj 9y agoWe are all Homo Œconomicus tending to our self capital.
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoThis article is thinly veiled PR trash. Every single link is to another article on the same website + a LinkedIn profile for the author. Create an artificial problem, appoint yourself the guru who can solve it, profit, rinse, repeat.
- jschwartzi 9y agoThis is not what self-care is at all. Self-care is about recognizing how you feel, understanding why you feel that way, and taking action based on how you feel instead of allowing yourself to be a victim of your context.
- urahara 9y agoSelf-care on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-care
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoThis article is thinly veiled PR trash. Every single link is to another article on the same website + a LinkedIn profile for the author. Create an artificial problem, appoint a guru who can solve it, profit, rinse, repeat.