" ... **fill our minds with busyness and distraction to numb ourselves emotionally**. (“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” wrote [[Nietzsche]], “**because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself**.”)" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ever-present-now]], [[infinite-scroll]], [[work-life-balance]], [[bad-habits]], [[attention]], [[mindfulness]], [[self-control]], [[bad-habits]], [[character]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]