Wednesday 28 November 2007

Emotional Job Committment

Even though there have been heaps of issues about what has happened in the business, you are still rather emotionally committed to the job that you first got there.  Do you think that it is something that is universal, or just peculiar to you, or just peculiar to the situation that you find yourself in now, for this particular circumstance?  Are there some people born or generated (it is probably way more environmental than it is biological/genetic) that really invest emotional energy in what they are doing and whether they do well or not (achieve or succeed or not), as opposed to other people who really couldn't care less (in Australia, we say "Couldn't give a rat's arse").

 

Or maybe it is just varying threshold levels for this type of commitment and attachment, to differing situations.

If you were a true Buddhist, you would simply acknowledge that the ultimate goal is non-attachment, and that one would let go all the mental accoutrements of the job, the people, the circumstance and simply move through life.

Still interested to see how a Buddhist monk would run your job.

 

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