Balance vs Conduit

1. “Where your fear is, there is your task”

This is why the work-life balance & self-care movements help people become losers.

Discomfort is where the opportunity is

Find what you fear & look it in the eyes

…otherwise you become mediocre and the rewards are terrible.
— Tim Denning (@Tim_Denning) May 18, 2024

This is true. What we fear, what disturbs and defeats us is what we are meant to be doing. In other words, it disturbs us for a reason.

The journey towards “a work-life balance” tends to end up in burnout and depression because the pitting of work and life against each other is wrong.

Also, this one is absolutely crucial once you move into the middle age:

6. “The 1st half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the 2nd half is going inward & letting go of it”

Once you let go of your ego reality looks different

How you spend time/energy transforms

Suddenly your

• life
• job
• network
• content consumption

…change pic.twitter.com/fWRmO4Rkam
— Tim Denning (@Tim_Denning) May 18, 2024

Middle age is when you become a conduit through which good things travel to other people. It feels great and reminds you that you have reached a great place in your relationship with the world. If you don’t become a conduit by 50, you’ll collapse into the dreaded midlife crisis.

Forget balance, and start thinking conduit.

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One response to “Balance vs Conduit”

methylethyl

May 20, 2024

Jung was an occultist masquerading as a psychologist.

Didn’t make him wrong or anything, but it’s always funny watching people pick him up and turn him around in the light like a glinting object they found in the grass, not knowing what it is.

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