Nowadays, 'work-life balance' and 'mental self-care are the go-to themes in conversations. 'Take things easy', and 'have breaks from work' are suggestions to overcome the problem. But, they act only as symptomatic treatments of a deeply entrenched disease which paradoxically stems from your forgetting the basics. And that is in omitting to do the selfintrospection for self-understanding that can reveal your innate strengths and weaknesses to carry on or modify your desires to succeed in life.
Failing to do that and by focussing on the outer world and getting carried away with society's standards of success, you start comparing yourselves with others who have reached the top. Then, you fall victim to 'keeping up with the Joneses' syndrome overlooking the common sense of 'one man's food is another man's poison'.
"How?", you may ask.
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