Do we ever stop to think exactly why it is that we, human beings, are always pushing ourselves forward, thrusting ourselves into as many tasks as possible? I’m sure many of us believe we are doing so in order to bring ourselves success. This is a thought, however, in the eyes of Barbara Ehrenreich to be somewhat naive. She elaborates on the relationship of success and busyness, revealing to readers that one does not have to be busy to achieve success. In “The Cult of Busyness,” we the readers are pulled into the story as Ehrenreich successfully creates somewhat of a playful joking air. She tells of one's “stress taking its toll…. her children resented the fact that she sometimes gets their name mixed up, and she had taken to abusing white
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I too, am someone who at times is very busy, often only allowing myself very little time for tasks as well as the time it takes to get there. This mistake is pointed out to me in a very concise way as Ehrenreich gets to making the climax and main body of her message. When one thinks practically, if a person only allows themselves so much time to complete a wide array of different tasks then they are cutting themselves short on completely mastering said tasks. For me, I need time to make mistakes not once or twice but over and over again until I get it right. It’s hard to achieve 10,000 hours of practice if one can’t even enjoy a meal without “‘grazing’ - the unconscious ingestion of unidentified foods while drafting a legal brief, cajoling a client on the phone and, doing calf-toning exercises under the desk.” With the way the Ehrenreich uses logic to present the readers with her advice in the closing paragraphs it is very easy to take the lesson away from it. We can now see that we spread ourselves too thin with activities to achieve success; furthermore, we conclude that in order to achieve success we may not be giving ourselves the best shot if we don’t allow ourselves the time it takes to refine our skills to do so. Thus, revealing to the readers that one does not have to be busy to be
I too, am someone who at times is very busy, often only allowing myself very little time for tasks as well as the time it takes to get there. This mistake is pointed out to me in a very concise way as Ehrenreich gets to making the climax and main body of her message. When one thinks practically, if a person only allows themselves so much time to complete a wide array of different tasks then they are cutting themselves short on completely mastering said tasks. For me, I need time to make mistakes not once or twice but over and over again until I get it right. It’s hard to achieve 10,000 hours of practice if one can’t even enjoy a meal without “‘grazing’ - the unconscious ingestion of unidentified foods while drafting a legal brief, cajoling a client on the phone and, doing calf-toning exercises under the desk.” With the way the Ehrenreich uses logic to present the readers with her advice in the closing paragraphs it is very easy to take the lesson away from it. We can now see that we spread ourselves too thin with activities to achieve success; furthermore, we conclude that in order to achieve success we may not be giving ourselves the best shot if we don’t allow ourselves the time it takes to refine our skills to do so. Thus, revealing to the readers that one does not have to be busy to be