Life Is Too Short To Be Busy

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It’s become an almost automatic response for us when asked how we’re doing to say we’re “busy.” According to author Tim Kreider in “The ‘Busy’ Trap”, this response is obviously “a boast disguised as a complaint.” When we tell people we’re busy, we expect other people to marvel at how much we have going on, and probably to think it’s a “good problem,” much better than the opposite.