Craig Lambert > Quotes

“If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

“Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

“Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: and easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. Then swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

“Work is the main event. It is central to our economy and our society, and it makes family life possible. It underpins our finances and our sense of purpose in life. Given work’s overriding importance, it is imperative to recognize the profound, far-reaching transformation that shadow work is having, and the way it is redefining our very notion of work. We will track down shadow work in its natural habitats, which are the familiar environments of daily life: the home and family, the office, shopping, restaurants, travel, and the digital world of computers and the Internet.”
― Craig Lambert, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

“In the United States of 1850, the Industrial Revolution had amped up labor to an astonishing all-time high of 3,650 hours, based on seventy-hour weeks and fifty-two weeks per year.”
― Craig Lambert, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

“Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure.” The researchers called this phenomenon “mindless accumulation”
― Craig Lambert, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

“The data flow so fast that that the total accumulation of the past two years—a zettabyte [one sextillion bytes]—dwarfs the prior record of human civilization.”
― Craig Lambert, Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day