When I was a teenager, I accepted, for a while, the idea that a 'making a living is a way of dying'...and, taking this premise in hand, went off to party with my friends, not putting much emphasis on work.
When I started to come out of this phase, I was not sure what I would learn or where i would go, but I started to work, and have always kept on working...eventually I learned that one of the key benefits of work is that it serves as one of the primary means we have of developing our ability to think...in working, we learn a body of knowledge, become focussed on aspects of existence, integrating our observations with our theories, our concepts, and maybe finding new theories and concepts. Our mind becomes fit for living, by exercising itself through work.... our awareness of our efficacy is one of the key aspects of confidence, and our achievements that we create through work become a key foundation for our happiness.
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