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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Former editor-in-chief of Lifehacker Slava Baransky - about why it is not necessary to pretend to be Europeans, being in completely different realities, and what should be done in order to somehow get closer to the lifestyle of pink dreams.
I find it funny and sad to look at what is happening with people around. Only talk about fatigue, overexertion, life balance and the dream of a weekend that ineffective inexperienced people drew in their fantasies.
What introductory notes do we have?
- Weak economy. And everything suggests that it is more rational not to count on quick changes.
- Productive age due to massive addiction to alcohol, sitting on the ass, lack of daily intellectual workload and low emotional state - 20-30 years.
- Regularly, once every 4–5 years, the economic crisis strikes, which nullifies or minimizes savings. At 36, I went through at least 6-7 crises of varying degrees of severity and do not expect anything else from the next 36 years.
That is, the same introductory notes are on the table of any young man 20-30 years old. The challenge for everyone is to slip through these years, accumulate a large or small capital, or create something that will continue to make money in "cold times". Therefore, in the years of calm, the only thing that needs to be done is to work hard.
You can sometimes come up for a couple of hours, but there can be no question of any vacation for two weeks. Generally!
During your two-week vacation, the company and more agile colleagues will run so far that "you are tortured to swallow dust", as the "classic" used to say. You will simply not be needed with your tan and balance in the shower.
2. European lifestyle
Fucked your head, or what? For example, in 2016, the GDP for each citizen of Ukraine (country of residence of the author. - Ed.) Was 8,272 dollars (139th place in the world!). In Germany, GDP per capita in 2016 is $ 41,936! The difference is FIVE TIMES. This means that you have to work five times more and five times more efficiently than a German like you, so that the balance in your life is like his.
3. Hugge
When I hear this word, I want to hammer a Berdichev mantelpiece wrapped in embroidery into the head of someone who looks at a Scandinavian sitting with a jar of jam in his hand and a dog at his feet, and tries it on himself with his current salary. Hugge is an accidental result, and not something that was built a decade ago in the same Scandinavia.
Instead of output
You will not have any balance until you learn to work and earn money to achieve that balance. A working day from 10:00 to 16:00 with a weekend Friday, a dog in a forest house, a crackling fireplace, a sabbatical and a matinee at 11:00 on a working day, a week-long wedding of friends in Santorini costs a lot of money.
Peace of mind in hiring is impossible. It is possible if you have a well-honed business that works more efficiently than its German or American counterpart. Five times more efficient and refined!
Stop whining and show what you can do. Bring your "personal GDP" to $ 41,936 a year, and then settle in a house in the Carpathians or near Copenhagen, relax on Saturday and Sunday and savor your retirement hygge with your idle friends. Because now you deserve it!
And I will add "optimism". Have you read Lee Kuan Yew's book? Well, there is about the Singapore miracle, breakthrough and success? Did you understand that in a small country, with the ruler's one hundred percent will to reform, and not to divorce an oligarchic zoo, under a tough dictatorship and Asian hard work, all this took 40 years? Fourty! Suppose we have blockchain, high-speed neural networks, AI, smartphones and social networks, education, role models, but this path will take no less time! And you say hygge, balance, I'm tired …
P. S. Hugge is fine. If you can afford it.
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