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My letter from Paris was mostly a response to your comments about watching sports on television (a narrow topic, no more than a small sub-issue in the very large conversation about sports in general) and why we, supposedly grown men, would choose to fritter away an entire Sunday afternoon following the essentially meaningless activities of young athletes on distant ball fields.
"Throughout history humanity has struggled to be the first to do meaningless activities".
We create struggles in our relationships, become fixated on unimportant things, tend to over indulge in things that comfort us, waste time on meaningless activities and start looking around for someone to notice us.
47% of marketers without marketing lead qualification systems simply pass all leads to sales, unqualified - this is an incredible waste of time for sales, forcing them to chase meaningless activities instead of spending time strengthening relationships with customers and qualified leads.
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It is, he says, an utterly meaningless activity.
Ben Daniels's Agamemnon seeks to hide his moral confusion under meaningless activity.
No doubt there is some truth to this (the public certainly does feel excluded from politics), but the idea that sport is a meaningless activity beneath the intelligence of ordinary human beings is condescending at best.
Sisyphus was condemned to a life of meaningless activity--pushing a boulder up a hill again and again and again, without purpose or accomplishment.
I want to stop wasting time in meaningless activity -- or thinking and acting in ways that aren't positive or helpful.
If you can still string together a complete thought, you might even start pondering how terrible Berghain is, and how much time you've wasted there, and then you'll feel guilty for devoting so much time, money, and energy to such a selfish and meaningless activity.
What poorer students often learn in schools is how to endure boredom, how to live up to low expectations, how to get through meaningless, mechanical activities.
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