All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind - Aristotle
How many of you agree with that? Before rejecting the statement outrightly, please think about it with a cool mind.
Normally, we would say money provides motivation and once you are motivated, its unlikely that your mind degrades.
What I mean here is that paid jobs usually(not always) takes you as a BLACK BOX with certain capabilities and the employer/manager etc give you the minimum input and look for expected output. Although you feel that you are working hard and are motivated by the appreciation you get for your sincerity, you are not using your mind to the extent you should be using.
Even if you explore few things here and there and say you are learning and enhancing your skills, your mental ability might not be on a rise.
What happens is we mistake our work and relevant skills as a measure of our mind's ability. I feel that you can be on a always increasing learning graph if your motivation is real and not the imaginary one like the ones mentioned above.
This means that the 'PAID JOBS' mentioned in the quote is the surreal means of motivation। Wanna upgrade you mind, go for real motivation.
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I guess what u r tryin to say here is that when you work for money ( as in a "paid job"), your motivation is to earn more, even if it comes at the cost of your own growth.
True. But we all need to have paid jobs to live our life, to have our daily bread, else we will die of hunger. So paid jobs are a necessity.
What we can do is to find a meaning outside our work, devote time to ourselves outside work, and not let work be the only thing in life. Then we will surely find a way to personal growth...
Work work and more work leads to monotonic lifestyle ...greatly hampering the thinking and power of the brain...
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