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'Taking away people's choice of how they work is probably not going to help them in terms of their well-being': New study unsurprisingly finds people who want to work remotely are actually more productive and happier

'Taking away people's choice of how they work is probably not going to help them in terms of their well-being': New study unsurprisingly finds people who want to work remotely are actually more productive and happier

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u/SplashTarget — 18 hours ago
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The climate crisis is a relationship problem...

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Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/NkMC9IXCRRs?is=rUxiX30kAMLoNLs3

Sharing a quote from the video which resonated deeply with me and I think would resonate with folks here too.

"No, we don't need more action. We are already in the middle of thick action. We need to investigate where our current actions are coming from because we are anyway acting even right now. Where is this action coming from?

Knowing is what is needed.

More acting will not take us anywhere because acting more will happen from the same center whose actions have destroyed the planet. But that's a nice way the actor wants to hide itself.

Who is the actor? The ego. That's a nice way the actor can hide itself by concerning itself with further action, future action, more action, better action, constructive action.

If the actor remains the same, the old destructive one, how can action be constructive? If the actor remains the old primitive one, how can action be new and fresh but the actor desperately wants to avoid that thing that I just mentioned the mirror looking at itself self-knowledge self-observation so the actor will say okay fine there's something missing out there in action with respect to that object so come on you all we need to act we need to act. No, this is such a successful tactic.

You are now even more focused on something outside of yourself, away from yourself with an even more reduced emphasis on who you are because why do I need to look at myself? There is something so very important out there somewhere. I need to fight that down.

The ones who want to begin must begin with an investigation of their own life as it is right now. The choices they are making, the filters they are applying, the ideologies they are holding, the plans that they have, their desires for the future."

Would love to know what was your takeaway from the video?

u/mamaaearth1 — 6 days ago