Watts Up.
I have always appreciated the philosophical perspectives of Alan Watts. One of my favorite quotations of all times is: If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going.
I encourage you to view this short video on Alan Watts. It is about the music and life of working with animation illustrating a recording of Alan Watts.
I read The Book when it was first published in 1966, re-read it after an unexpected opportunity to meet Alan Watts just before he died (in 1973), and then continue to re-read it more than thirty-five years later. I immediately was aware of his stunning intellect and compelling decency. More impressive by far was a sense of his spirituality. It was most evident in his eyes and tone of voice. Here is one of my favorite passages:
“We need a new experience — a new feeling of what it is to be ‘I.’ The lowdown (which is, of course, the secret and profound view) on life is that our normal sensation of self is a hoax, or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing — with our own tacit consent, just as every hypnotized person is basically willing to be hypnotized. The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
I am convinced that one of the reasons that there are so many disengaged employees is that – for whatever reasons — they feel that no one among workplace associates (especially their supervisor) knows who they “really are”…or cares. How many of these employees would become happier, more positive, and more productive if greater effort were made to understand them as people, not merely as irritations with names?