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You Don’t Have to Earn Your Rest

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By Leo Babauta Something I’ve noticed is that a lot of us have an ingrained belief that we can take some time off to rest if we’ve worked hard enough. Or often it’s like, “I’ll rest now so I can be more productive tomorrow.” The mindset we have ingrained in us is that rest has to be justified by how productive it will help us to be . This is so deeply ingrained in us that we don’t even notice it. It comes from the mindset that we need to be more productive, and that our lives have to be built around how to achieve more. It’s the central tenet of our society. And so in that vein, rest is only O

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