are your emotional weights collecting dust?

Seth Godin’s description of emotional labour got me thinking: do we spend time at all to finding new ways of doing things?

Emotional labour in a nutshell is the difficult work that you put effort into that creates and strengthen your connections with other people.

It’s a term applicable in a variety of situations, workplaces, relationships, society, and is the mental equivalent of heavy lifting.

It would seem that we spend a lot of time and effort on our rote tasks, but too few minutes on asking ourselves ‘how can we make this better?’

I think if there were 10% more people in the world labouring emotionally, the world would be a better place.