This is because work is “what expands to fill whatever you give it.” Skill is the ability to set boundaries against work and be a master over it rather than be enslaved by it.
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Work and play mutually enrich each other _because_ they are separate. When that boundary is broken work takes over everything. You try applying your 'play' to work e.g. 'following your passion' but all that does it turn your passion into work.
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It is precisely because you can sell your life energy at high price points that the boundary -must- be maintained.
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Doing something passionately is _easy_. But it’s short term. Doing it for work eventually drains the passion out of it and makes it usefull even for play.
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Instead of figuring out something sustainable you’ve used up one of your eternal flames. Using up one for work is burnout. Using them all up for your life is a dark depression.
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