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The Importance of a Day Off
In Ancient Greece, the ancient Greek word for work translated as not at leisure. Work was seen as an aberration and something that you did when you weren't doing the leisure thing. A day off is not supposed to be part of your productivity system - it should allow you to come back to work harder. Leisure is the thing that facilitates work. It's not even the thing that you do when you're not at work. And then this is why we see burnout because as you said, you know, leisure is what allows you to work. But when you don't have that, then you can grind and grind and grind and you're going to burn out.