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Although well known and often quoted, the 283rd aphorism is Friedrich NietzscheIt's obviously difficult for the majority of us to understand.
Is this due to our nature or is it only due to the fact that we all no longer know what to do with ourselves and our actually very limited time?
“Main lack of active people. — The active ones usually lack the higher activity: I mean the individual one. They are active as officials, merchants, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as very specific, individual and unique people; in this respect they are lazy. — It is the misfortune of the active that their activity is almost always a little unreasonable. For example, one should not ask the money-collecting banker the purpose of his restless activity: it is unreasonable. The agents roll as the stone rolls, according to the stupidity of mechanics. - All men fall, as at all times, so also now, into slaves and free; then he who does not have two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave, be it whoever he pleases: statesman, merchant, civil servant, scholar.”
Friedrich Nitzsche, Human, All Too Human
And as soon as we can carve out a little time for ourselves, we sit... - I don't really need to elaborate on this.
But the nice thing about every realization is that it is better to come too late than not at all. And who knows, maybe one or the other will start to think about it a little earlier now.
Although we have a lot of time thieves, we only take the many discussions or "meetings" that we have to attend in our professional, working life and honorary posts and which we reduce to a reasonable minimum in terms of quantity, time and content without any problems could, this problem is obviously suppressed holistically.
It is expressly stated that performance is the quotient of work done or energy expended and the time required for this.
It is socially accepted that performance can be measured comprehensively over the time used, whether it is needed or not, and that work and energy can be reduced to zero for this.
Ultimately, however, only our own time is the limited resource, and we should therefore economize with it; even at the risk of exposing time thieves and redefining performance more in terms of work and energy expenditure.
As already mentioned at the beginning, the real problem is that we have hardly thought about what to do with the "newly gained" time.
"To be free" is probably not in our nature.
"I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1997 [1776]: 17)
