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The tiredness of exhaustion is the tiredness of positive potency. It makes one incapable of doing something. Tiredness that inspires is tiredness of negative potency, namely of not-to.
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
Yo era un hijo de puta, y lo sabía. Lo normal es que los padres se sacrifiquen. Yo no conseguía soportar que se acabara mi juventud, no podía soportar la idea de que mi hijo iba a crecer, iba a ser joven por mí, y que a lo mejor iba a tener éxito en la vida cuando la mía era un fracaso. Quería volver a ser una persona.
Las Partículas Elementales
Michel Houellebecq
There is, however, an important corollary to this idea: Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. Much in the same way that athletes must take care of their bodies outside of their training sessions, you’ll struggle to achieve the deepest levels of concentration if you spend the rest of your time fleeing the slightest hint of boredom.
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