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balance: the perennial virtue of the under-achiever
by amirhirsch 4y ago
balance: the perennial virtue of the under-achiever
- swagasaurus-rex 4y agoI read an article recently suggesting top-performers in the army tend to be happy. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/top-performers-have-a-superpower-happiness/ https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/top-performers-have-a-su... While balance isn't required for happiness, I know many imbalanced, unhappy and underachieving people.
- amirhirsch 4y agoIt was meant to be funny, not controversial! I'm sure the world is full of balanced, happy people, with both lives and achievements!
- brackass 4y agounder-achiever seems like an odd word. Not everyone values “achievement” over everything else.
- unethical_ban 4y agoThis is a joke that doesn't land because there is a high likelihood that some here believe this.
- Lich 4y agoIt's interesting how different people view it differently. I don't agree with the joke in meaning, but when I read it, I assumed he was making a joke or being sarcastic and wasn't trying to offend anybody, whereas the first reply took it seriously.
- amirhirsch 4y agoThe joke doesn't land because people feel both unbalanced and under-achieved and largely powerless to change it.
- UncleMeat 4y agoFirst, so the fuck what? Is it so wrong to have different goals than "rise up the corporate ladder and make stacks on stacks on stacks"? It is not morally wrong to prioritize different things. Second, if we consider "achievement" to be measured by income I have far better work-life balance as a software engineer than the person who cleans my house, despite me making 10x what she makes. There doesn't appear to be some global correlation between working hard or long hours and pay.