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The real skill is to stop and rest, even when work is not finished 🔔

A chubby matte plastic model kit penguin resting beside a small brass hand bell and a cup of tea on a soft violet background
Not Harder

The important thing is not "the power to work harder."

Stop And Rest

It is "the power to stop and rest, even when the work is not finished."

⚡ TRY IT
The monastery quiz
How many hours a day did the monks work?
🤔 Not quite. Try again!
Guess!
⭕ 3 hours! And then the bell rings…
🔔
🐧Never mind.
🧺 Today's work70%
🍵 Rest30%
The work is not finished. What do you do?
😓 There is always more. The bell is still ringing.
😌 Rest 100%. The work will still be there tomorrow.
The Monastery

According to Burkeman, at one monastery, work time was also 3 hours a day.

One Answer

When someone asked a monk, "What if the work is not finished?", he answered like this.

"Never mind."

📚 I learned this from Oliver Burkeman's newsletter. Read the original (English)
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