If the main goal of your job is a number. If there’s no larger purpose, no higher ambition, no bigger system. If when the goal is hit, the counter resets and you start from scratch. If you can do it all on your own, from anywhere, at anytime. If you not doing it, simply means that someone else will take over trying to reach the number.
Then, how long can it last?
The idea that a country can solve its problems by closing its borders is as pointless as the idea that a person can heal their wounds by confining to their own room.
“Hi, this is me from my company. I understand you are using my competitor.”
“Correct. Now is not a good time, could you drop me an email?”
“Sure. I understand you are using my competitor, would you be interested in evaluating my company at renewal.”
“Sorry, it really is not a good time. Could you send an email?”
“Would you be interested in evaluating my company.”
“I keep saying it’s not a good time. Send me an email.”
I understand there’s a script to follow, some boxes to check, a grumpy supervisor. But if this is the job, then sure, AI will take it.
The purpose of life is not to eliminate suffering. It is not to reduce it either.
The purpose of life is to get acquainted with it.
So that you can recognise it, manage it, and enjoy all the little moments when suffering is not there.
For as counterintuitive as it might sound, sometimes – perhaps often times – you don’t need a solution.
You need to listen to yourself and others.
You need to stay in the situation.
You need to allow time to pass.
You need somebody to be in it with you.
If you can accept this kind of immobility, you’ll find that solutions are just a bridge to the following problem.
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