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I am in the hospital today for my infusion treatment, which takes a couple hours. Normally, I am working simultaneously, but I am hindered by the weird position of the drip in my arm. When I bend it, the flow stops and an alarm goes off - so I am reduced to typing with one hand on a full-sized keyboard. Not ideal, but better than just sitting here in this comfy chair doing nothing.

The image reminds me of strands of electrified blood - Kind of like how I feel a lot of the time. Not energetic, more like anticipation flowing through my veins.

This morning, the word "diligence" came up and it reminded me of my dad. He would often use the term, but I am not sure if it is still in favor now.

I talk about work a lot in my posts and the benefits of it, but I think that part of the reason it has fallen increasingly into the negative, is a lot of what we do for work is no longer connected directly to our lives. There is a filter between, where we work for money and then that money connects to our lives.

Where people may have heard the term diligence before is in regard to investment opportunities, where "due diligence" is the investigative process that someone goes through before investing into something. I say "may have heard", because with everyone's focus moving away from work, there is a massive shift to the concept of workless wealth and when this happens, a lot of the due diligence doesn't get done, as that is work in and of itself.

It is no wonder why so much of the crypto projects can get support even if they do not have any usecase, service or product to speak of. As long as they can capture the attention of those who want to achieve workless wealth status, people will get involved, invest without doing the work to see what lays beneath. It is no wonder why so many people get burned in scams too, as the attraction of shortcutting to the end-goal of wealth without the work, overrides the mental ability to look at the investment opportunity objectively for fitness and it increases the ability to overlook weaknesses, as the attention is on the "prize" not the path.

In physics, there is the rule,

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another -Einstein

Every movement takes energy of some kind, whether it be a physical shift in location or a mental shift in concept, work needs to be done in order to close the gap from position one to position two. The trouble with many of the people chasing workless wealth is that they do not consider the amount of resources needed to move from A to B and instead focus on the yield percentage. A 100% APR will double your money in a year, but if you only have a dollar to invest, what difference does it make?

The ability to build up the required resources in order to make a significant return takes work and when the person doing the investing is in a rush and suffers from instant gratification syndrome (is it a recognized syndrome yet?), the possibility to build resources is greatly diminished. The reason most of the large investors in the world are old, is because they have had time to develop there resources, which means not having spent them frivolously on non-generative filler.

Work is an energy, it is the electricity that gives the ability to travel from one position to the the next. Work done in a gym as exercise will result in a better body, work done to earn will result to a better financial position, work done to build a mindset that facilitates work, will result in greater diligence, meaning that there is an increasing ability to work, not one that diminishes as resources grow.

It doesn't really matter what that work is, but an individual who works at something they find important, connects activity to their own life to bring meaning. The problem with the workless wealthy is that the money they have earned is not actually connected to anything of meaning, which often leaves them feeling empty and chasing meaning in other ways - as long as they don't have to work for it. Again, I think there is a reason that so many of the inherited wealthy have a host of psychological issues and turn to vice to find meaning, or dull their desire for it.

But this is getting off track.

I wonder if people think about the energy quote above and how that relates to their own activity in life. For example, we all have some level of skill, which is essentially a "potential energy" that we can tap into and apply through work to generate a movement toward something. we are able to convert the energy into another form of energy, that we can use to transfer again.

For instance, I have enough experience in my life to be able to generate a range of thoughts and enough creative and writing skill to be able to present them to others. Through work, I can combine and apply these things to transfer that energy into digital tokens on Hive, which I can then use to do the work for numerous other things, like voting and delegating, supporting and buying. Through this process, I have been able to increase my experience and ability, which essentially means that I have improved my ability to work, with some of that work being able to be achieved without me having to attend directly to it, for example in a farming pool at Cub Finance.

I don't think most people see work in this way, they see it as a chore, something that they have to do to be able to live a life, without realizing that work is life itself. I am not talking about a job being life or living to do a task, I am talking about life being about movement and how it takes energy to move through it. without energy resources, life stops moving, rendering it effectively dead - no more electricity firing synapses in the brain, no more blood running through the veins.

However, what I will finish with is a caveat to working, as one also has to be able to have the sensitivity to understand where they want to be and the work that gets them there. A lot if people take shortcuts that end up being the long way around or leading to a dead end. One of these shortcuts is working hard at doing what one wants, even though it doesn't lead to where they want to go. Obviously, that isn't an actual shortcut, but when people do what they want, the long way around they are avoiding is the work they don't want to do.

Well, on that note, I hope this brings some thought to mind and perhaps makes you consider your own understanding of work and where you want to be. Do you have the energy required to get there or are you going to have to generate some more, understanding that energy can't be created from thin air- it needs to have a source before it can become a re-source.

Until work is performed, all energy is only potential. Tap into yours with diligence.

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]

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