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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Pandemic and the Relationship to Work

During the pandemic, I taught myself how to tune a piano. And that's a form of work that felt very meaningful at the time. So there would be an example of turning away from the Zoom work but taking up what was another kind of work. What would a satisfying answer to that question look like? You know, I wouldn't want to kind of malaise-born withdrawal from work into resigned recreation.

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