Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Burning the candle at both ends

From ref

Beware this school of thought.
I used to follow it.

It's still taught by an irresponsible lapse of professionals.

A catabolic recipe for burnout, digging into the finite well of emotional labor. To the point of selfishness. Examples being "Can't go to kids/friends due to this work."

Your brain is a ball of fat, there is no showing its sweet gains on social media. No way of quantifiable measurement! Dang.

Seth Godwin calls this the Paradox of red lines, I also call it Pontzers paradox. Another phenomenon. Your body is trying to reset by treating time as a shortcut, not a tool.

Practice makes permanent, including physically unsustainable acts that we might not realize it.

Why not burn the candle at three ends if we take it towards the extreme level? Use all biological functions. Burn the candle at four ends! Grow another pair of arms like an octopus, so you're doing work during that 2-hour sleep schedule.

In short of this rant, you can safely avoid that rabble. There's a reason why those people need those extra hours of sleep!