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“Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It’s an experience, a context we generate” from Brene Brown.

We CAN subordinate work to life. “It starts with a simple acknowledgment: you aren’t what you do.”

As an investor benefits from diversifying, we benefit from “diversifying our sources of identity and meaning.”
“Meaning is not something thematbis bestowed upon us. It’s something we create and, as with any act of creation, it requires time and energy. The time to invest in non-work pursuits and the energy to actually do so.”

Eric Thompson: “workism” - a workist seeks meaning from their job similar to how a religious person seeks meaning from their faith

Developing a healthy relationship to work starts with finding out what you want that relationship to be, if not your employer will happily define that relationship for you.

"Too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home" - Esther Perel