Uselessness as a Path to Fulfilment

The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi argues our obsession with making ourselves useful risks ruining us

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We all want to be useful in some way or other. We want to do useful work. We want our lives to have some kind of useful meaning and purpose. But, according to the Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou, our obsession with usefulness makes us our…