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In this episode Joel and Antonia reject the idea of a work life balance and suggest an alternative way to see work and life.
In this podcast on the work life balance you’ll find:
- The structure of civilization supported work life balance in the past especially in the Industrial age. There was a clear definition between things to do at work versus things to do at home. There used to be a definite time to do work related activities and a definite time to spend with loved ones at home thus making work life balance easier to attain during that time.
- We are currently in an over communicated time wherein we are so much tethered to communication devices and technology that keep us connected to the world. These allow us to stay on top of things but in turn create a very demanding intensity of workload making it a great challenge and somehow a confusion to have work life balance nowadays.
- Work life balance applies to a structure where there is a need to close one’s self from certain environment and situations. This kind of compartmentalization may appeal to some people but it is now becoming a trend for companies to provide their employees work which allows them some freedom from it.
- Since everything is becoming integrated nowadays, work life balance seems to be a non workable ideal. Instead of work life balance, consider work life integration.
- Integration is better than separation. Instead of compartmentalizing things which is done in work life balance, integration of important components of life allows us to take more control of our increasing workloads.
- Full engagement, full focus and doing things one at a time are some of the ways to integrate components of work and life.
- Overestimating things that we can do is overwhelming and very idealistic that it becomes impossible to attain goals.
- There is an existing belief in society that there is something wrong in achieving things without struggle. Deprogramming ourselves from that belief and instead creating personal development goals that incorporate all components of work and life allows us to experience pleasure along the way making such goals so much easier to attain.
- Personality hacker is fundamentally about being part of your own personal growth and development journey.
- Know whether Work life balance or Work life integration best works for you.
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Can’t wait to see your TEDTalk. :)
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Great thoughts. I think the challenge is… how do you make the transition?
People won’t give up a current system until they see a clear alternative that is better… or the pain of the one they are using becomes so great that they feel the need to switch.
So how do we help people see abundance and a better way?
Great comments Leon. Thanks for the feedback.
I might have seem off-topic, but what I meant to say was that the Venus Project, as well as Self-Determination theory, states that people are intrinsically motivated to do things, to challenge themselves, to invigorate themselves. Look back to when you were a child, this is how you felt about things, regardless of personality type.
The premise of the monetary system is that people don’t do anything unless they are given money. The fact is we have all the resources to save the planet and all humanity now, but simply because everything costs money, no one will do this. The reason why people don’t do things unless they are given money is caused by the monetary system itself.
If a child loves playing soccer, if you give the child a nickel for every goal, they would lose their intrinsic interest in soccer and associate it with the nickel. The kids (like businesses today) will only then focus on getting goals rather than the art of the game. We intrinsically want to solve the worlds problems using our own gifts, to give back to the community. We lost that because of money.
We will do an activity we love. Then given a reward each time we do the activity, sure it may increase the activity. But take away the reward, activity falls below baseline. That is why people become sedentary. However, no one is naturally sedentary.
Get rid of the monetary system and guarantee resources for all people everywhere…we have the means to do that. This is the future work-life world, or play-is-work, work-is-play world, play-is-life world.
I might have seem off-topic, but what I meant to say was that the Venus Project, as well as Self-Determination theory, states that people are intrinsically motivated to do things, to challenge themselves, to invigorate themselves. Look back to when you were a child, this is how you felt about things, regardless of personality type.
The premise of the monetary system is that people don’t do anything unless they are given money. The fact is we have all the resources to save the planet and all humanity now, but simply because everything costs money, no one will do this. The reason why people don’t do things unless they are given money is caused by the monetary system itself.
If a child loves playing soccer, if you give the child a nickel for every goal, they would lose their intrinsic interest in soccer and associate it with the nickel. The kids (like businesses today) will only then focus on getting goals rather than the art of the game. We intrinsically want to solve the worlds problems using our own gifts, to give back to the community. We lost that because of money.
We will do an activity we love. Then given a reward each time we do the activity, sure it may increase the activity. But take away the reward, activity falls below baseline. That is why people become sedentary. However, no one is naturally sedentary.
Get rid of the monetary system and guarantee resources for all people everywhere…we have the means to do that. This is the future work-life world, or play-is-work, work-is-play world, play-is-life world.