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I feel your pain, especially when people say that others pretend to be busy for various reasons. They must single. I'm the father of a single infant and co fo

• hyperbovine 12y ago
  Kids, startup, and distant location were all choices.
  • koide 12y ago
    well, everything is a choice if we start going that route. the idea is to differentiate the intention behind the choice. if the intention (conscious or not) is to hide behind being busy then it's a problem. if you're actually pursuing something other than pretending due to fear or similar limiting reasons, it's not
    • unclebucknasty 12y ago
      >well, everything is a choice if we start going that route. Exactly. And I would add that part of the point posed by the article is that we seem to be overly busy, given whatever life objectives/circumstances we have. So, given that a person choses to have, say, a job and 2 kids, then they are busier on average than in times past. So, the question isn't whether an individual person can choose to be less busy. The question is why do we tend to be busier than ever on average, when we should theoretically have more leisure time.
• welly 12y ago
  You chose to be busy when you fathered a child and co-founded a start up. edit. the guy below me/above me said it before me.