Unnecessary emotional labour.

Our important work requires us to do emotional labour. To show up, to make a change, to create tension, to make things better.

But, there are other spaces in our life that lead us to do emotional labour without any returns. Bad traffic, an argument that was not needed, news that you can't do much about and so on.

If we spent so much emotional labour tackling these other things, we are left with little to do the important work, our work.