E-Book of The Joy of Not Working

Chapter 4: Working Less Just for the Health of It
The Trap with No Cheese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Do You Know Who You Are? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Ignorance Runs Rampant in Today’s Corporate World . . . . . . . . . . 42
Hard Work Is the Enemy of Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
To Be a Peak Performer, Work Less and Play More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Leisureholics Have More Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Fire Yourself If Your Employer Doesn’t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Are You Listening to Your Calling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Joy of Not Working Nine to Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 5: Unemployed: The True Test of Who You Really Are
The Time of Your Life to Have the Time of Your Life . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Unemployment Is a Great Opportunity to Develop
Some True Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Being Unemployed Means Being a Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
We Often Miss the Good Old Days That Never Were . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Three Needs to Satisfy at Your Leisure That Jobs
Inadvertently Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Making a Career Out of Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 6: Somebody Is Boring Me; I Think It Is Me
An Extremely Boring Disease to Have . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Real Cause of Boredom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Retirement Is Boring Only If You Retire from Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Abolish Boredom with the Easy Rule of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
If You Do Boring, Stupid, Monotonous Work, Chances Are
You’ll End Up Boring, Stupid, and Monotonous . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 7: Lighting Your Own Fire Rather than Being Warmed
by Someone Else’s
Dancing the Motivation Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
It’s Difficult to Experience Pleasure from Reminiscing
about Things You Haven’t Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Do You Want What You Think You Want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
It’s Time to Plant Your Get-a-Life Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
There’s So Much to Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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