How to Make the Most of Your Day (Without Working Overtime) In 2021, stop saying you are busy (and finally learn to work smarter, not harder).
By Aytekin Tank Edited by Frances Dodds
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It's 2021. And busy braggers are still out there repeating their favorite line yet another time:
"I'm so busy."
It might not officially be the most common way we answer the question "how are you?" but it's up there. Being busy — or at least, pretending to be — has become the foremost status symbol of our time.
"Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day," essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider wrote in the New York Times. Claiming constant busyness, he says "makes you feel important, sought-after and put-upon."
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