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Salvador Hernandez

Nice read, but updating the formatting would make it easier.

I disagree with the not sleeping part to learn more. We value productivity and goals so much that we choose to sleep less, and when we sleep less, our cognitive abilities decline, and when our cognitive abilities decline we can't learn, and when we can't learn we get stuck.

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Ignatius Sani

Thanks so much, for the feedback Salvador.

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BezPowell

Absolutely. Tired people make mistakes, and undoing mistakes is far more costly than not making them in the first place. This capitalistic idea of work over everything else as a way of climbing your way up the career ladder is a very useful tool for employers to exploit their workforces.

As John Lennon (supposedly) said:

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.