Health and Effort

*shrugs* It seems to be stating the obvious to me.

Is there really any philosophical question?



No where in the Protestant work ethic (which originated in Germany btw) is there anything that says one should work beyond their abilities. There is a huge difference between working hard within your physical and mental limits and working in excess of those limits.

Who determines what are the safe limits? I define limits by the very fact that reaching them is self-destructive, but I believe they can easily go by unnoticed or uncared about if hard work is the main focus, because discomfort is taken as a sign that effort is being put forth, and not as a sign of oncoming poor health. For example, someone who is trying to overcome laziness may think they are feeling uncomfortable because they are actually trying for once, but because of this, if they get sick they may pass off the resulting discomfort as a result of overcoming laziness and not as a result of sickness.

For the record, the man who ran the first marathon didn't die - there are races up to 1000 miles long today, and few people have ever died.

I think the only thing that counts is physical exhaustion, whether it be in the form of fatigue, stress, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon%2C_Greece

I meant the legendary run of the Greek who died after delivering his message.

The mind is part of the body too. You think it doesn't get exhausted?

Legendary = never happened. :wink: The story is a fable, myth... call it what you will. It's fabricated.

Anything too ... (including to hard) is not good.

Yea I realised. It's a myth.