I wrote a few days ago about how our values can be seen by how we spend any given week...you can check it out here if you want to read it https://steemit.com/life/@breakthrough/the-scaling-out-of-value-168-units-at-a-time
As I was writing I stumbled across some research that said Americans spend on average 37.5 hours a week in front of the tele and it got me thinking about what our culture has deemed as normal...We essentially on average spend as much time working as we do watching television. While television does have some very minimal value to it...its generally is a deadening device to help the population indoctrinate itself with uselessness, and hold us down to be average.
Our culture says that if you work 40 hours a week you are not lazy...you are a productive adult in society and should be rewarded accordingly. This has been making my brain spin the last few days...Im not saying we should measure employees effectiveness by making them work 50 60+ hours, that would be equally un-itelligent...what I am asking is what if we measured our lives by something more then 40 hours a week...like a challenge to overcome
What if we measured our lives productivity by if we actually care about what we are doing. If there is actually any life, passion, dreaming, hoping, fight, tenacity in us...
If I have 20 employees all working 40 hours a week and half of them are lifeless, not enjoying what they are doing, not really wanting to work for the company and are doing it for a paycheck. Would my company be better off to fire the 10 lifeless ones, give the other 10 a raise and call my shorthanded staff to innovate, dream, overcome challenges and be awesome?
Now I understand that our "work" is not everything in life...but what if it was a part of our life that didn't steal from us. What if instead it becomes an outlet where the incredible capacity of our brains and spirits could thrive? All of a sudden 40 hours a week would seem trivial...we would be motivated by a goal, a passion a challenge as a opposed to a minimum requirement. Our hearts would beat with real life instead of complacent average weekend warrior mentality...
what if? is it possible? Sure there would be plenty of challenges in adopting that mentality...but what if the 40 hour/week mentality is really just keeping us average...You have a 168 hours in any given week dont be driven by a paycheck but by a challenge...
Exactly. We have to spend a certain number of our lives doing things that are necessary, like cleaning, cooking and grooming ourselves and our loved ones. Modern man has more leisure time than before electricity and modern conveniences. We may have to work at a 40 hour a week job that we don't like but we can still use whatever leisure time we have to either engage in long term dreams and goals. And like you said, a change of attitude can even change that 40 hour paycheck into a character or excellence challenge.
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I have found that those people that engage the monotony with courage, that take on the daily grind are people that are able to overcome whatever challenges they face - if its socio-economic, upbringing, education, or whatever...those that take on the daily grind almost always overcome and create success on their landscape...thanks for reading
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