What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

by James Hollis

The legacy of our Puritan past, with its implicit equation of work with the blessings of divinity, are enmeshed with the idea of productivity as a gender value and as a measure of psychological worth. The problem with this formula, however, is that the judgment of “lazy” is prejudicial and reductive. Doing what the soul wants rather than what the complexes want is not being lazy. It is serving a larger agenda than our archaic biographies permit.