If you want to try the neoliberal lifestyle or discover that you are already living it, here are some fun suggestions. The underlying principles are easy: gamify, quantify, liquefy.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- a productivity app
- some wearables
- an impossibly ambitious achievement goal you’ll be pursuing
- a psychological problem, a health issue or a personality flaw you’ll be solving
- an exotic exercise routine
- a complicated non-alcoholic energy-enhancing beverage
- 3 books including one audiobook
- a notebook where you will be conducting daily self-reflections and self-assessment
- a detailed morning routine
- a detailed evening routine
- a daily step goal
- a plan for a daily artistic experience
- a podcast on personal finance or entrepreneurship
- a sleep remedy. If you don’t develop sleep issues, you aren’t doing it right
Take all these ingredients and design a game where you have to hit each of the components daily in a way that leaves you feeling so energetic you can’t fall asleep without a sleep remedy.
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It all sounds very religious. Being a monk in a monastery on a very regimented schedule complete with silence, fasting and penance seems more relaxing than the neoliberal lifestyle.
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Absolutely, it’s a monklike existence, that’s a great way to put it. The difference is that it’s inwardly oriented, there’s no transcendence, and the source of the sublime experience is the self.
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What do mean by a “wearable”?
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A Samsung watch, an Oura ring, a FitBit, although I don’t recommend the latter since it’s being systematically downgraded by its new owners.
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Good. I was trying to picture wearing a tie or a certain kind of hat.
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Sounds exhausting!
One should be able to sleep soundly after such a punishing day — but maybe too much sensory stimulation just tires out all senses, instead of relaxing them, and people may be going through the motions in a drunken stupor of sorts after a while.
I am only offer detached speculation because such a lifestyle seems so alien that it’s hard to relate to at any level.
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It’s neither punishing nor exhausting. It’s exhilarating to the participants. It’s like thinking that chess players must be deathly bored to sit there and stare at the board without moving for an hour. But they aren’t bored. They are playing. A chess player goes deep inside himself to calculate the moves. That state of being deeply inside his own mind is narcotic to him.
A neoliberal subject is like an athlete but his arena is his brain.
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Are you kidding, lady? That routine is too much like work!
Dreidel
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Thanks! I’m going to try as many things from this list as I can.
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