I found myself sharing the proposition that ‘busyness is a form of violence’ with one of my wonderfully capable and high-achieving coachees last week. It’s a paraphrase of Thomas Merton, that unobtrusive but searing observer of modern life.
As someone who is still absorbing the implications of this little hand grenade of an epithet in my own life, I find myself wondering which weapons of busyness could I lay down in this hour? Today I think it’s multiple tabs open at once.