I have struggled for some time to explain an increasingly alien concept to friends, family, and to my colleagues and superiors at work: the concept of enough . We are each trained, from the moment we are born, to want more . More of everything - more money, more possessions, more property, a faster car, more expensive clothes, and so on, forever. I have had incredulous and occasionally heated responses from managers who, when asking what my goals are in terms of work progression, cannot compute the idea that "I have none; I have enough", or are almost offended that I would countenance doing more work without material or financial reward if it meant being able to help more people. These people are not uncaring, or evil - they are merely following their programming: despite having good jobs, (more-than-)comfortable incomes, and a level of material luxury that was almost inconceivable within the lifetime of their grandparents, we are conditioned to want not j...
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