When I was young, primary schoolaged, the worst thing you could be was lazy. You didn’t have to succeed at everything, but you did have to try really hard at everything. Even through my languorous teen years, the fear of being labelled as lazy kept me working hard.
During a brief stint in the corporate world, I realised the only way to succeed was to be exceptionally busy. You had to bemoan it out loud of course, but if you weren’t so busy, you weren’t working hard enough. The extra mile wasn’t really extra at all — it was the compulsory minimum.
There are countless problems with this ideology, of course. Problems that, in the last five years or so, have been well discussed. Dubbed generation burnout, millennials are transforming the workplace to prioritise wellbeing, leaning into the
