Overwork and Workaholism, Part 2: Work and Soul
This post continues the themes of overwork and workaholism from my last post. It further explores some of the soul and feeling dimensions of overwork and workaholism through music.
This post continues the themes of overwork and workaholism from my last post. It further explores some of the soul and feeling dimensions of overwork and workaholism through music.
Work is ultimately only meaningful and satisfying if life overall is meaningful. Both the self-imposed, compulsively avoidant working of the workaholic, and the oppressively imposed burdens of the bullied and overworked can deprive life of much or all of its real meaning.
Personal growth is a term that has taken on quite a conventional meaning -- but the reality may be something quite different. Often, when people talk about "personal growth", you sense that they have a very clear and definite idea of what everybody has to…
There is a power in shame, sometimes greater than in any other emotion. We confront shame when our dignity is lost, when we have gone beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable or tolerable, when we are profoundly alienated from other humans because of who…