Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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The sacrifice of the present to the future.
Right?
If you're doing something for fun, if you're engaged in the present, if you're captivated by the moment, you're not working.
You're enjoying yourself.
You're being entertained.
You're playing.
What are you doing when you're working?
You're striking a bargain with the future.
Or you're striking a bargain with the spirit of the future.
And the bargain is, I'll give up something I want and value now,
on the understanding that it will be returned to be manifold in the future.
That's why you work.
And so then that's in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve are tossed out of paradise because of their sin of pride, God informs them that in this fallen world, they will have to work, they will have to toil in the fields.
They'll have to toil to bring forth children.
They'll have to work.
It's the human destiny to work.
Why?
How about because we're aware of the future?
How would that be?
Above all other animals.