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What is the difference between a workaholic and someone who is total in their work?

A workaholic is lost in the noise of activity, while the one who is total in their work finds joy in silence and perfection, effortlessly balancing doing and non-doing.

— Osho
According to Osho, a workaholic is addicted to activity—using work as a drug to escape oneself—so he is never truly present or silent. Being total in work is the opposite: a meditative immersion, free of compulsion, that brings joy and perfection. Totality in doing also enables totality in non-doing; the workaholic compulsively fidgets, while the total worker can sit silently and enter meditation.

A workaholic keeps busy to avoid themselves, while being total means doing one thing with full presence and calm—like meditation—and also being able to rest quietly.

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