If you pay attention to your diet, you soon realize that the food that is healthy for you is most often also good for the planet. Eating ultra-processed foods all day is not just bad for your health but also unsustainable for the environment.
When it comes to parenting, if one of the parents can enjoy their own free time, they come back with extra energy and motivation. This helps the parents carry on and makes up for the extra fatigue of the parent that took care of the kids on their own.
What helps the bee helps the hive. This is an emerging pattern in social groups ranging from 2 individuals to the whole planet.
And it's critical for businesses too.
Especially in tech where the productivity is not linear. Silicon Valley companies were the first to take the well-being of their employees seriously and spent cash in it. And it paid off: they managed to attract the best talent and reduce turnover.
Obviously, it has limits too: we still have to get the job done at the end of the day. However, even if it can seem counter-intuitive, giving people a break can be the fastest way to achieve a goal.
Being successful as a team also means that the members have to feel personally successful and satisfied.
Do you have other examples of cases where individual interests align with common interests ? Or the opposite ?
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