Pressing pause feels unnatural. To step back from our constant forward plunge, we need permission (a vacation, parental leave). Even for planned and pleasant pauses, over 50% of Americans who have the benefit don’t take all the paid leave our jobs provide. And we maintain our work umbilical cord via our phones and laptops. Going off the grid is so radical we proclaim it like a call to revolution. Inertia carries us forward as if a change in velocity or trajectory
Throughout a childhood spent in a feisty, fiery family swayed by uncertainty about everything that mattered, the emotional flak of routine tantrums, severed relationships, and worshipful clinging to people or ideas struck at random. Friends insist the story of that part of my life would make a good book. They say I’ve turned out so much better than my circumstances predicted.
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When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink “I used to believe that timing was everything, now I believe that everything is timing.” -Daniel H. Pink, When If you ever feel like you’re trudging through mud just to do some good in the world, Daniel Pink’s 2018 book, When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, will show you how to work smarter, not harder.