It can be tempting to maximize every system to its limit.
To squeeze as much productivity out of our minds and bodies selves as possible…
To be satisfied only with the best (whatever it might be)…
To overanalyze every moment to make sure it is producing maximum pleasure…
To take from the earth without regard for ecological limits…
At some point, this is going to break down and we will bear the cost.
And this maximization mindset actually makes us unhappy, pounding our interior lives dangerously thin.
Keeping the slack in life’s systems is a worthy and indispensable discipline.
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