I have to go to work

We think that means going to work and putting on our hats to play doctor, janitor, or accountant. We don’t say that I have to go to work as a human being. We are so much more than the narrow label of whatever we do from 9 to 5 for money.

Who we are doesn’t translate to what we do in the confines of our modern world. A carpenter over the ages might have done work in exchange for goods. But only recently have we forgotten how to put our personality into our work. It doesn’t meet the criteria to be the kind of person who produces something personal in a world that demands something ordinary.

Humans have this amazing ability to compartmentalize information so we can sort it. But it gets in the way when we want to find our identity. We are just too complex to simplify important things.