(Haven't read the article, and probably won't given impish9208's reasoning for posting) The terminology "Work-Life Balance" gives too much importance to work.

(Haven't read the article, and probably won't given impish9208's reasoning for posting) The terminology "Work-Life Balance" gives too much importance to work. It should be "Life Balance" in which there is at least a handful of mostly-unrelated things that should be maintained in order to achieve balance in one's life. I've said in a past comment or two about having enough "things" going on in one's life that, if one or two are going badly, then one of the others can be 'retreated to' for comfort or solace or distraction. Decentralised happiness. I'm happily mediocre. I'm mediocre across a number of things, but the sum total of all the mediocres is, I think, great. Focus too much on one thing, build your entire self-worth upon it, and one mistake, not even in your own control, could be like a horse breaking a leg in a race. Life balance, work should be but one leg of four or five. (There is more nuance to this, but I think on the whole it's more right than wrong)