Blogger Z rules:
Good work ethic is good to the extent that it does not come from grim discipline but from good self-care.
This is brilliant. What comes out of masochism cannot be good. Work because you love yourself not because you want to self-punish.
And there is more brilliance where that came from:
One does, in fact, need large blocks of time for work. Not for the work itself — that can be done in little pieces. One needs big blocks of time because the work has to be couched in rest and recreation, in which one is not working at breakneck speed on other things, but is renewing oneself while one’s mind works on its ideas in the background.
Yes. A thousand times, yes. A lot of leisure where one reads, walks, listens to music, talks to interesting people, thinks and even cooks is crucial for intellectual growth and productivity. I don’t have a problem with generating ideas for articles. “This comes effortlessly to you,” a colleague said the other day. The apparent effortlessness, however, is a result of reading and thinking and reading and thinking all the time.
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