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The Busyness Illusion | Breaking Free from the Hustle Narrative

The hustle culture never stops.  

It seems to be something to be celebrated about. ‘I’ve been really busy’ often becomes an automatic response when we are being greeted. Being busy has become almost like a status, a measuring stick for our worth and success. If you haven’t been busy, it means you’re lazy, or just not that successful at all. But why is our success defined by how busy we are? More importantly, has ‘I’m busy’ become a standard answer to declining an invitation for something we are not interested in?

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