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Insight

Fatigue and Work

Nolini Kanta Gupta

Fatigue, it is said, comes from overwork. and quiet enthusiasm is tonic: it is dynamic
The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that rest. A work done without interest, as a
is, do-nothing. But the truth of the matter sort of duty or task, will naturally tire
is that most often fatigue is due not to too you soon. The remedy therefore against
much work, but rather too little work, fatigue is to keep the interest awake. Now,
in other words, laziness or boredom. In there is a further mystery. Interest does
fact, fatigue need not come too soon or not depend upon the work: any work can
too easily, provided one knows how to be made interesting and interesting to a
set about his work. If you are interested supreme degree. There is no work which
in your work, you can continue for a very is by itself dull, insipid, uninteresting.
long time without fatigue; and precisely All depends upon the value you yourself
one of the means of recovering from put upon it; you can choose to make it as
fatigue is not to sit down and slip into attractive as a romance, as significant as
lethargy and tamas, but to take up a work a symbol.
that rouses your interest. Work done in joy How to do it? How to find interest in anything

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