Not only do you put in a lot of emotional and
mental effort thinking up and creating individual pieces and performances, but then you have to spend time figuring out how to get the word out about your work and how to sell it.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear
thinking world that equates earning money with physical or
mental effort.»
Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear
thinking among adults who are engaged in intense
mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»
You
think about it, worry about it, dream about it, etc... and it prevents the person from enjoying themselves, or doing something productive which would give them a better return for their time and
mental effort.
«3 Hartshorne's readers soon discover that the
effort to comprehend his
thought is not only an exciting intellectual adventure but also an arduous
mental task.
One way to conceptualize these systems is to
think of the processes involved in driving a car: the novice needs to rely on controlled processing, requiring focused concentration on a sequence of operations that require
mental effort and are easily disrupted by any distractions.
I also
think this set point is what I call «happy weight» - where its easy for both your body and your
mental self to maintain with little
effort.