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Wrong Proportions

Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy

We simply work hard at things in the wrong proportions. If you work eighty hours a week and never see your kids and never talk to your wife, the problem is not only the number of hours. It is the distribution. DeYoung’s observation presses past vague complaints about “being busy” to the question of what is receiving the best of our strength.

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Busyness is often not the total hours but the misallocation of them.

  • Work
  • Family

Deyoung

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