Work-Life Balance

Great quote on this topic: “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” -Lawrence Jacks

Once, I heard a version of this from a very smart person: "you can be anything, but you can't be everything."

Thank you for making this video. It really speaks to the situation I'm in now. Here in America, its been pretty trendy lately to rubber stamp all of society's problems with negative liberty. "Anything is possible; you're just lazy." Time is not a renewable resource. Devoting time to one thing always means taking it away from somewhere else. Don't speak to me about "success." You can't be good at one thing without being bad at something else

Thank You, this is the guidance I need as an impulsive, confused, adhd, adolescent....I actually take notes on these videos, thank you so much

I also feel like this type of thinking could help control freaks (like me) delegate tasks to other people. If I trust others with little tasks, then the bigger tasks I focus on might turn out better.

These are easily some of the most informative and interesting videos on youtube

Why Pewdiepie has 38 million subscribers while The School of life has less than 300,000 is beyond me. More people really need to watch this.

there are people who work very few hours ,make a lot of money and they have plenty of time for their own personal life. So it's not impossible. For most people work doesnt leave them much time for personal life and work it's self doesnt give them a lot of money either no matter how hard they work, they end up not succeeding in anything. There is a stupid belief which is convenient to some for us to believe that the harder you work the greater reward you'll have, which is completely false.

We have been conditioned to believe that we have to be the jack of all trades to get a job. This is all because of employers' unreasonable demands; Instead of paying a group of highly skilled individuals, they rely on one person to do everything. This cheap cost-cutting trick is actually damaging to the company, the economy, and society as a whole. We can't be the best at everything, it's unrealistic. Suppose everyone was good at everything, they will have to keep up to date with everything too. Doesn't sound practical but good luck with that. I understand what the video is saying, it's good. But society doesn't allow us to invest in our hobbies and passions because all our time is taken to work all day everyday just to pay bills.

today i deleted some of my projects so i could focus more on a few. i drive myself crazy always thinking i have so much to do. all the time i wish i could be more like the sports car. but my natural tendencies are to try and be good at a lot of things.

focousing on being good enough in importartant aspects of life rather than trying to be perfect in each of them , is the best thing we can do.

I love this channel. It's so full of realistic wisdom. I've been feeling blue, and people find it hard to console in a way that is both practical & understanding. This channel does just that, without even knowing me, which makes me think it has a good understanding of fundamental human fears and traits. I wish I could remind myself of such truths in moments of anxiety and sadness

Suddenly, I feel glad I am an imferpect Humanities student!

"You're the human equivalent of a sports car" is the best compliment AND insult I've hear in a while

As a contract killer i plan assassinations quite often, so thanks for mentioning it. /s

What a fitting theme for the day, I skipped university class today because I didn't feel balanced haha.

:) thank y'all, really is good to hear this reality. Was feeling rather down about the unbalance in my life, this helps a lot.

All I can get to this video is that if you wanna be good at something or be less stressed just focus on one thing and thats really helpful to me

I thought the whole idea of work-life balance was to opt for that imperfect variety... Isn't it about letting yourself off work and having time at home as well as work? Work-life balance is the antidote to the narrow perfection, or at least it hopes to be.

Thanks, The School Of Life for providing such an insightful knowledge about the work-life balance. It is really satisfying to know that it is impossible to have work-life balance