Jordan Peterson WorkLife Balance Dont Work Yourself to Death MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

I did a lot of counseling work with people who were coaching work I guess with people who were fairly spectacularly successful and they were usually workaholics you know they're the sort of people that were like they'd work 80 hours non-stop that's just what they were like and one of the things we were always trying to figure out was well how much should you work because one answer is you just work till you die right I mean you just exhaust yourself and well that's not that's not a good idea and then you have to figure out why that isn't a good idea it's got to be something like this is that you don't want to do so much work that the amount of work you do interferes with the amount of work that you could still do right because if you work like mad for two weeks and then you like you have to lie in a hospital bed for a month that obviously isn't very productive so you have to figure out how much you can work diligently and then how much you have to recuperate so that you can get back up and work again and you know that's people have basically settled on something like this and given it the divine imprimatur that that's one way of thinking about it which is well you can toil away for six days and no wonder because you have to work but you should rest at least one day out of seven because otherwise well you don't appreciate life that might be part of it and plus I think it's more a matter of iterative iterability no because one of the things that defines morality is the capacity to repeat something right so if something is properly structured in a moral manner then you can do it over and over and over again without any degeneration and so that's kind of like a relationship if your relationship is negotiated you can continue to negotiate it and then you can have a relationship that lasts for a long time you can do it today and next week and next month and next year you can maintain it across time and this I would say is the wisdom that's being associated that's being garnered over God only knows what period of time to say well look I mean even God needed to take a break and appreciate it's not such a bad thing for people to follow that that pattern and that's a good thing for modern people to know because we seem to be even though you know we're very wealthy by historical standards our capacity to relax isn't exactly what it could be and I think that's really hard on people