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Why outsourcing physical labor diminishes personal resilience

I pay someone to chop wood for my fireplace and watching them work makes me feel ashamed of how soft my hands have become.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The body remembers what the mind tries to forget about the necessity of struggle.

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