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   The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

   David Whyte

   “The current understanding of work-life balance is too simplistic… Some other dynamic is in play, something to do with a very human attempt at happiness that does not quantify different parts of life and then set them against one another. We are collectively exhausted because of our inability to hold competing parts of ourselves together in a more integrated way.”

   English poet and philosopher David Whyte’s manifesto for breaking the tyrannical myth of work/life balance is an existentially necessary read for modern life:

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