Need Work-Life Balance? || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 When you dedicate a lot of personal time towards this goal of excellence, you also lose out on a lot of social time.
00:06 Like time for you to hang out with friends and have fun.
00:08 So how would you ideally be able to balance it?
00:11 Balance is not something good.
00:13 You know, where does this concept of balance come from?
00:17 You want me to tell you?
00:18 This comes from the point of Industrial Revolution.
00:22 Now, Industrial Revolution threw up a lot of jobs that were inherently soul-sapping.
00:28 So for example, in a factory, you are just standing by an assembly line and inspecting goods as they pass by.
00:34 And what's your job 8 hours of the day?
00:36 To keep looking at goods.
00:38 Now this kind of job is something no sane man can live with.
00:42 It will kill you.
00:43 So the concept of work-like balance came in.
00:45 Alright, I tortured myself for 8 hours in the job, but in return of that, I got some money.
00:50 And using that money, I bought a vacation.
00:52 And in the vacation, I had fun.
00:54 So see, there was a balance.
00:55 There was torture and then there was fun and they were balanced.