Comment by andreyk | Hacker News Reader

Comment by andreyk | Hacker News Reader

"Transform your perspective thus: rather than seeing the job as carrying out someone else’s will in exchange for money, see it as itself your sacred cosmic duty. What important task do you do for the project you work for? How does that project fit into creating a more glorious future? How is that future pleasing to God, the proper order of things, and your own felt value instincts? Your wage is just a budget given to you to help you carry out this sacred duty; give your whole life to the task at hand, and take responsibility for its whole logic. If something in that entire chain of purpose back to the highest purposes isn’t right, fix it. You own the task and the task owns you."

Wow, what is this even.

Shamelessly copying from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius adding cosmos and fancy word so that homework doesn't look like the original. ;)

Has McMindfulness been succeeded by McStoicism yet?

i hate how often stoic ideas get rehashed, even marcus was basically just paraphrasing epictetus, but at least that was okay because epictetus didnt write in very readable english

It is the same style isn’t it. The unintended hilarity is due to the fact that Marcus Aurelius was writing a diary addressed to himself (admonishing himself to do this and that) while this blog post is meant as serious advice for public consumption (you, the reader, should do this and that).

It's like somebody wanted to write Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, attempting something really deep and profound, and ended up with gibberish.

They even made it as long as a book.

Did you read the entire thing?

I guess I could say I skimmed most of it, and zeroed in on a few particularly peculiar paragraphs that made me not want to really pay attention to it. The author was clearly earnestly trying so hard to do something.

And that is a good thing, no?

Deeply, deeply pretentious.

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