[dheera]

I think this is an extremely privileged view. The problem is many people are forced to work 80+ hours a week OR risk losing their immigration status, access to healthcare, and many other things. They have literally zero time left for activities that are restorative to mental health. Having your work be something you "love" to do is an incredibly privileged position to have. A few people can do it. The vast majority of the population cannot. Even those that do it usually run into mental health issues at the point where their "loved" career gets entangled with customer and political issues, if they cannot emotionally extricate themselves from their careers.

And be careful before telling someone that they can just change their job. Changing jobs is easy if you're a citizen, the economy is in good shape, and you have a bit of a financial cushion to get you through a couple unemployed months. For a lot of others, it's hard.

The bottom line is TIME is a finite, zero-sum resource, and there's no way to change that. It has to be a balance in terms of time allocation at the least.

This is good stuff to think about, but I still do think the "balance" framework is a good one because it's a simple one. At the very least, if you can reach a state where you are able to budget work TIME and non-work TIME, many of the other things the article talks about will naturally fall into place without having to think too much.