1 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,520 ItIt is Sunday afternoon. Your chores  are done. Your laundry is folded. The   2 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:21,680 inbox is—miraculously—empty. You  finally have permission to relax.  3 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,840 But... you can't. Instead of peace,   4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,040 you feel a phantom vibration in your pocket.  A tightening in your chest. A voice in the   5 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,960 back of your head starts whispering:  "You should be doing something. You are   6 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:42,560 wasting time. You are falling behind." This has a name: 'Leisure Sickness.' It   7 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,880 is when you actually feel sick  the moment you stop working."  8 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:53,840 Now, you might tell yourself: "I’m just Type A" or  "It’s just my personality." Indeed, we use these   9 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:00,720 labels to convince ourselves that this anxiety is  a genetic quirk—that we were simply born this way.  10 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,120 But that is a lie. You were not born unable   11 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:11,520 to sit still. You were trained to be unable to  sit still. You are the victim of a specific,   12 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:18,000 invisible philosophical architecture  designed to make you impossible to satisfy.  13 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,920 You have been infected by what the  German philosopher Josef Pieper,   14 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:28,160 in his famous book Leisure: The Basis of  Culture, called "The Logic of Total Work."  15 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,520 It is the belief that a human being is nothing  more than a worker, and that any moment not   16 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:39,600 spent producing value is a moment wasted. Hi I’m Dan, and in today’s Philosophies For Life,   17 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,880 we are going to be taking a look at exactly  why you feel guilty when you rest, and how to   18 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,880 reclaim your right to simply exist. Act I: The Internalized Panopticon  19 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:54,080 To understand why you can’t sit still on  a Sunday, we have to look at a specific   20 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,600 18th-century blueprint drawn up by a  philosopher named Jeremy Bentham. It   21 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:06,720 was a design for what he considered to be the  "perfect" prison. He called it: The Panopticon.  22 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:12,320 The design was terrifyingly simple. In the  center, you have a guard tower with dark   23 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:19,280 windows. Surrounding it is a ring of cells,  backlit by the sun. The trick was simple: The   24 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,520 prisoners could see the tower, but they couldn't  see inside it. They never knew if the guard was   25 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:32,560 watching. He might be asleep. He might not even be  there. But because the prisoner might be watched,   26 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:39,760 he had to behave perfectly at all times. Eventually, the tower can be empty. It doesn't   27 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:47,040 matter. The prisoner has become his own warden. The French philosopher Michel Foucault argued   28 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:53,840 that our entire society is basically a giant  Panopticon. Our Schools, Factories, and Hospitals   29 00:02:53,840 --> 00:03:00,640 all look suspiciously like prisons. They all rely  on the same machinery to make us obedient. Think   30 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,800 about a classroom. Why are the desks arranged  in rows facing the front? So the authority   31 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:13,120 figure can see everyone at once. Think about the  modern open-plan office. It isn't designed for   32 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:20,960 "collaboration"; it is designed for visibility. They use something called "Normalizing Judgment."   33 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:28,640 They measure you against the "Average."  In school, it's your GPA. In the hospital,   34 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:39,440 it's your BMI. At work, it's your KPIs. You are  constantly being measured against a "Standard."   35 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:47,120 And if you fall below that curve, you are  shamed. You are disciplined. You are "abnormal."  36 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,360 But surveillance alone doesn't explain  the guilt. To understand the guilt,   37 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:58,080 we have to look at a sociologist named Max Weber.  In 1905, he wrote The Protestant Ethic and the   38 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:05,520 Spirit of Capitalism. He argued that in the West,  we turned "Work" into a religion. In the old days,   39 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,800 you worked to survive. But the Protestants  believed that working hard was a sign that   40 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:17,680 you were saved by God. Wasting time wasn't  just lazy; it was a sin against the Almighty.  41 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,080 Today, we have killed God, but we kept the  guilt. When you sit on the couch on Sunday,   42 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,200 you don't feel like you are relaxing; you  feel like a sinner in the hands of an angry   43 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,840 God. But the God is now "The Economy,"  and your penance is checking your email.  44 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,160 The philosopher Byung-Chul Han in  his book The Burnout Society says   45 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,360 that we have moved from a "Disciplinary  Society" to an "Achievement Society."   46 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:53,600 The old world—the Disciplinary Society—was ruled  by "You Must." You must work these hours. You must   47 00:04:53,600 --> 00:05:00,320 obey the master. In that world, the enemy  was external. It was the boss. It was the   48 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:07,520 system. If you were tired, you could blame them. But today, we live in the Achievement Society.   49 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:14,160 It is ruled by the phrase: "You Can." You can  be a millionaire. You can have six-pack abs.   50 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:20,160 You can launch a startup. This looks like  freedom. But Byung-Chul Han argues it is   51 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,960 actually the most efficient form of slavery  ever invented. Why? Because when the command   52 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:32,800 is "You Must," and you fail, you are a  rebel. But when the command is "You Can,"   53 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:40,400 and you fail... you’re just… well… a failure. In this system, there is no "Boss" to hate.   54 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:47,520 There is only you. You are the project manager  of your own life. So when you sit down to rest,   55 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,600 you don't feel like you are sticking  it to the man. You feel like you are   56 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:58,720 cheating yourself. As Han writes: "The victim  and the executioner are now one and the same."  57 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:04,240 The reason you feel guilty isn't that you  have work left to do. The work is never   58 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:10,800 done. The reason you feel guilty is that you have  become the absolute worst boss you have ever had.  59 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,600 Act II: The Addiction to Cortisol For 99% of human history, "Stress"   60 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:22,720 was a short burst. You saw a lion. You escaped.  And then... the stress turned off. You went back   61 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:29,520 to sitting in your cave, by the fire, staring  into the flame for four hours and hours. Stress   62 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:36,160 had a beginning, a middle, and an end, but  modern capitalism has hacked this system.  63 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:42,320 The modern world doesn't have lions. It has  email notifications. It has deadlines. It has   64 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:48,720 rent. It has the 24-hour news ticker. None  of these things will kill you instantly.   65 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:55,200 But unlike the lion, they never go away. So, we have entered a state of Chronic,   66 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:01,520 Low-Level Activation. You aren't getting a giant  spike of adrenaline to run from a predator.   67 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:08,800 You are getting a constant, intravenous drip-feed  of cortisol, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  68 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,840 You are literally marinating in stress  hormones. And here is the scary part:   69 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:20,480 Your body has become addicted to its own stress. Think about what happens when a heavy coffee   70 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:26,160 drinker skips their morning cup. They don't  feel "relaxed" because the caffeine is gone.   71 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:33,040 They feel a headache. They feel irritable.  They feel sick. They are in withdrawal.  72 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:39,600 This is exactly what happens to you on Sunday  afternoon. When the work stops, the cortisol drip   73 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:46,480 stops. Your body panics. It has forgotten how to  operate in "Rest and Digest" mode. It interprets   74 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:53,280 the silence not as "Safety," but as "Danger." This is why you pick up your phone. Be honest.   75 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:59,520 You aren't picking it up because you actually want  to see another Instagram story. You don't care.  76 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,240 You are picking it up to  get a hit of Micro-Anxiety.  77 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,720 You are looking for a notification. You are  looking for a headline. You are looking for   78 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,360 anything that will spike your cortisol back  up to the baseline you are used to. You are   79 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,920 checking your phone for the same reason a  smoker takes a drag of a cigarette. Not to   80 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:24,080 feel "good." But just to feel "normal." You aren't a workaholic because you love   81 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:31,407 work. You are a functional addict, and  your drug of choice is your own anxiety.  82 00:08:31,407 --> 00:08:33,200 Act III: The Fear of Being Nobody We stay busy because we are   83 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:38,000 terrified of who we are when we stop. Think about the very first question you ask   84 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:45,040 a stranger at a party. "So... what do you do?" We don't ask: "Who are you?" or "What do   85 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,760 you love?" We ask: "How are  you useful to the economy?"  86 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,360 In our culture, your value as a human being  is directly tied to your economic output.   87 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,080 If you are busy, you are "in demand." If you  are exhausted, you are "essential." If you are   88 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:07,040 resting... well, you must not be very important. In the 19th Century, the economist Thorstein   89 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:12,480 Veblen coined the term "Conspicuous  Leisure." Back then, if you were rich,   90 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:20,400 you didn't work. Idleness was the ultimate status  symbol. It proved you didn't have to labor.  91 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:26,560 But today? The script has flipped.  We have "Conspicuous Busyness."  92 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:31,280 Notice what happens when you ask a  friend how they’ve been. They sigh,   93 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:37,040 roll their eyes, and say: "Oh man, I’m just  SO BUSY lately, like you wouldn’t believe…   94 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:43,920 it’s just so crazy busy right now... Ooof!" But they aren't really complaining. They are   95 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:50,400 humble-bragging. They are signaling: "Look at me.  The market needs me. The world cannot spin without   96 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,280 me."

And for men, this is particularly  lethal. We are conditioned to believe   97 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,520 that our value is our utility. If  we aren't providing, protecting,   98 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:06,160 or producing, we feel invisible. We don't  rest to recover; we rest to reload. We   99 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:12,400 are terrified that if we put down the shield  for one second, we will be exposed as weak.  100 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:18,400 To rest is to admit that you are dispensable. To  rest is to confront the terrifying possibility   101 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,960 that if you stepped off the treadmill, the  company would replace you in two weeks,   102 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:29,840 and nobody would care. We use busyness  as a shield against our own irrelevance.  103 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:36,560 And this leads us to perhaps the scariest  quote in the history of philosophy. The French   104 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:43,600 mathematician - yes I said mathematician  - Blaise Pascal wrote this in the 1600s:  105 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:51,040 "All of humanity's problems stem from man's  inability to sit quietly in a room alone."  106 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,520 Why? Why is sitting alone so  hard? It’s not because it’s   107 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:01,760 boring. It’s because it’s confrontational. When the noise of the emails stops... When   108 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:08,640 the validation from the boss stops... When the  distraction of the podcast stops... You have to   109 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:14,880 meet yourself. And for many of us, that stranger  in the mirror is someone we have been avoiding   110 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:23,680 for a long time. In the silence, the "Default Mode  Network" of your brain turns on. You start to hear   111 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:31,040 the thoughts you’ve been drowning out with work.  Am I actually happy? Is this relationship working?   112 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:38,880 Is this really what I want to do with my life? These are terrifying questions. So, what do we do?   113 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,360 We grab the anesthesia. We open the  laptop. We check the stock market.   114 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:48,880 We clean the kitchen for the third time. We choose the exhaustion of the body over   115 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:55,172 the terror of the mind. We would  rather be tired than be conscious.  116 00:11:55,172 --> 00:11:57,120 Act IV: The Theft of Leisure If I asked you why you sleep,   117 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:04,480 or why you take a vacation, what would you say? You’d probably say: "To recharge." "To blow off   118 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:11,360 steam." "To get my energy back." Notice the language. "Recharge."  119 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:19,040 It’s a metaphor for a battery... a machine.  And a machine recharges for one reason only:   120 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,440 So it can go back to work. In our current system, we have   121 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:28,320 destroyed the concept of "Leisure"  and replaced it with "Recovery."  122 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:34,720 The philosopher Josef Pieper argued that this  is a tragedy. He said that real leisure is not   123 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:41,760 a break from work. It is the point of life. Leisure is doing something for its own sake.   124 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:48,747 It is looking at a sunset, not to post it to  Instagram, but just to see it and enjoy it. It   125 00:12:48,747 --> 00:12:55,840 is reading a book, not to learn "key takeaways"  for your business, but just to enjoy the story.  126 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:03,120 But under the Logic of Total Work, everything  must have an ROI—a Return on Investment.   127 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:10,160 The system hates "useless" time. It wants  to colonize every second of your life.  128 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:16,640 So, we don't just go for a walk anymore. We have  to "get our steps in." We track it. We optimize   129 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:23,360 it. We don't just have hobbies anymore. We have  "Side Hustles." You can't just enjoy baking;   130 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:29,200 you have to sell the cupcakes. You can't  just enjoy painting; you have to open an   131 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,989 Etsy shop. Or in my case, you can’t just learn the  drums for fun, you’ve got to turn it into a Twitch   132 00:13:30,989 --> 00:13:33,840 stream (link in description… cough cough) We have monetized our joy. We have turned   133 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:39,840 our "free time" into "unpaid labor." We feel  guilty when we rest because we have convinced   134 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:46,880 ourselves that if an activity doesn't make money  or improve our health, it is a "waste of time."  135 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,600 But just think about that logic for  a second. If everything you do is   136 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:57,360 "for" something else... when do you ever  actually live? If you work to get money,   137 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:03,360 and you rest to work better... you are  stuck in a loop that only ends when you die.  138 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,080 The philosopher Bertrand Russell saw  this coming almost 100 years ago. He   139 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:13,040 wrote a famous essay called In Praise  of Idleness, and he dropped this hammer:  140 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:22,880 "The morality of work is the morality of slaves,  and the modern world has no need of slavery."  141 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:29,680 He meant that only a slave defines their  entire worth by how hard they work. A free   142 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:35,360 person defines their worth by how well they  live. We have forgotten how to be free. We have   143 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,440 forgotten how to be "useless." Act V: The Great Refusal  144 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:46,000 So, how do we escape? We do not do it with life  hacks. We do it by rewiring the philosophy that   145 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:52,880 runs our lives, and here are 4 ways to do that. Memento Mori    146 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:59,760 Memento Mori means realisation of your morality,  remembering that you are going to die. The Stoic   147 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:06,720 philosopher Seneca famously said: "You act like  mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals   148 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:14,240 in all that you desire." The ultimate antidote to  the "Logic of Total Work" isn't a bank account,   149 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:19,840 it is the realization that you are going  to die. When you zoom out far enough,   150 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:26,160 your emails aren’t actually urgent. Your quarterly  goals aren’t really that important. The fact that   151 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:32,400 you are behind schedule is irrelevant. The  reason you feel guilty for resting is that   152 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,840 you think you have infinite time. You think  you can rest "later," once you’ve made it,   153 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:44,880 once it’s all done... But "later" is never  guaranteed. But when you truly understand   154 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:52,240 your own mortality, wasting time on things  you hate becomes the only true sin. The most   155 00:15:52,240 --> 00:16:01,600 dangerous man to the system is the man who knows  his time is short, and refuses to sell it cheaply.  156 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,640 The "Niksen" Bridge The Dutch have a concept   157 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:14,480 called "Niksen." It translates to: The deliberate  practice of doing nothing. And I mean nothing. Not   158 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:22,720 meditating to "improve mindfulness." Not listening  to a podcast to "learn." Just... existing.  159 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:30,160 Your challenge is simple: Set a timer for 10  minutes and go sit by a window. Look at the   160 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:36,992 trees. When you do this, the guilt will scream at  you. Your brain will say: "This is useless! You   161 00:16:36,992 --> 00:16:45,040 are lazy!" Recognize that voice. That voice isn’t  your conscience. That is the withdrawal symptom.   162 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:53,040 Treat it as such. Treat it like a fever. It  feels bad, but it will pass if you don't feed it.  163 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:59,360  "Wu Wei" Ancient Taoism teaches Wu Wei, which means not   164 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:05,520 forcing things. Think of someone trying to open  a stuck door by pushing harder and harder, only   165 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:12,400 to realize it opens by pulling. Wu Wei is about  noticing that instead of exhausting yourself.   166 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:20,160 It’s working with the situation, not against it. This idea goes against grind culture, which says   167 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:26,800 more effort is always better. Often the problem  isn’t that we aren’t trying enough, but that   168 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:35,280 we’re trying in the wrong way. We push even when  it drains us, believing struggle equals progress.   169 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:42,240 Wu Wei suggests slowing down, paying attention,  and responding to what actually helps—like   170 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,480 stepping away from a problem, taking a  short walk, and coming back to it with   171 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:54,320 a clearer mind instead of forcing a solution. When you do that, work still gets done. Usually   172 00:17:54,320 --> 00:18:00,640 with less stress and better results. Your mind  clears, your energy lasts longer, and creativity   173 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:08,080 returns. By stopping the constant push, you end  up accomplishing more, because you’re no longer   174 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:14,960 fighting yourself. Define "Enough"  175 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:21,440 Imagine there is a universal rule introduced  tomorrow. A "Maximum Income Cap." Let's say   176 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,400 the rule states that once you earn an  amount $X$—enough to be comfortable,   177 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:32,160 safe, and fed—you cannot earn a penny more.  No matter how much harder you work, no matter   178 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:39,760 how much more value you produce, you will not be  compensated for it. The surplus simply vanishes.  179 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,080 Now, ask yourself honestly:  Would you still work this hard?  180 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,760 Would you still answer that email  on Sunday? Would you still stress   181 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,560 over the font size on that presentation? If the answer is "No", then you are not   182 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:57,360 driven by passion. You are driven  by a hunger that has no bottom.  183 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,360 The system is designed to have no finish  line. It tells you that if you just make   184 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:10,480 a little bit more, you will finally be  happy. But that is a mathematical lie.  185 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:15,600 There are two ways to get rich: You  can work yourself to death to get more,   186 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:23,520 or you can simply want less. Sit down and  actually write out your wants. Be specific.   187 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:29,520 "I want a comfortable apartment. I want good  food. I want to travel twice a year." Then,   188 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:35,520 calculate exactly how much that costs. You might realize that to fund that life,   189 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,560 you don't actually need the high-pressure,  80-hour-a-week job. You might realize you can   190 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:46,960 take a "smaller" job, earn less money, but buy  back your freedom. You can choose to invest that   191 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:52,160 time in learning a passion, picking up a hobby,  or simply sleeping, rather than investing it in   192 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:57,200 a corporation that doesn't love you back. The most rebellious thing you can do in a   193 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:03,120 capitalist society is to look at the pile you have  made and say: "This is good. I have few wants,   194 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:09,360 and I have enough to satisfy them. I am free." Act VI: The Right to Be Useless  195 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:16,400 The System—the Panopticon, the Cortisol, the  Status—it all wants one thing from you. It   196 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:24,160 wants you to be a Battery. It wants you to be  efficient, predictable, and constantly running.  197 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:30,720 But you are not a battery. You are a person. And  as a person, you have a fundamental right that   198 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:37,200 the market will never acknowledge: You have the right to be useless.  199 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,840 I don't mean useless to your friends or  your family. I mean useless to the Economic   200 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Engine. You have a right to have hours in  your day that have zero commercial value.  201 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,480 Because if you look back at your life,  the moments that actually mattered - the   202 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:58,560 moments you will remember when you’re  old - they were probably all "useless."  203 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:05,200 The time you spent laughing with a friend until  your ribs hurt? Useless. No ROI. The time you fell   204 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:12,000 in love? Useless. Not "productive." Watching  a sunset? Playing with a dog? Staring at the   205 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,320 ceiling and dreaming? All useless. And yet, those are the only   206 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:26,000 moments that make being alive worth it. So, don't let guilt steal those moments from you.   207 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,600 Don't let the world trick you into trading your  life for a slightly better performance review.   208 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:39,520 The most revolutionary thing you can do in a world  obsessed with speed... is to slow down and live..  209 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,840 And that’s our video. If you enjoyed it, please  make sure to check out our full philosophies   210 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,560 for life playlist, and for more videos to help  you find success and happiness using beautiful   211 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:53,933 philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.