To our brains, words are real objects, and they function much like seeds. Which is to say, a thousan

To our brains, words are real objects, and they function much like seeds.

Which is to say, a thousand times yes to this post from Olga Khazan from The Atlantic: give up on work-life balance.

"Work-life balance" is a notion that someone came up with to name a series of shared observations, creating a fresh new problem for humans to obsess on. Once named, people agreed it was a problem. Is it though? Or has life always been just one goddam thing after another, much too complicated, much too exhausting? Isn't life just sort of necessarily set up that way?

Isn't it better that we live in a world that's much too interesting rather than one that's much too boring?

Naming a thing is a very good way to create problems by making a fresh new something that once was nothing inside our heads. We name it, so we reify it, fixate on it and nurture anxiety around it.

Just let the idea go.