Work-Life Balance

Today, I'd like to share a TED talk I came across relating to work-life balance:

My favourite points:

• "I'd like all of you to pause for a moment, you wretched weaklings, and take stock of your miserable existence".
• "And the reality of the society that we're in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like".
• "It's up to us as individuals to take control and responsibility for the type of lives that we want to lead".
• "Because commercial companies are inherently designed to get as much out of you as they can get away with".
• "You can't do it all in one day. We need to elongate the time frame upon which we judge the balance in our life".
• "With the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your relationships and the quality of your life".
• "We can change society's definition of success away from the moronically simplistic notion that the person with the most money when he dies wins, to a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well-lived looks like".

Wise words indeed.