Preparing for their return home from vacation, a mother asks her child, “are you excited to go back home?”

The child answers, “Yes!”

Mother: “Why?”

Child: “I have very important work waiting for me at home. I need to figure out how to build an elephant and a frog with Legos as soon as we return.”

What Legos are to the child is what work is for the mother.

Work is real, but it’s also made up. All of it.

Angels can fly in the heavens because they take themselves lightly. We also can fly if we loosen up and have fun. Yes, work can be fun—why not?

Benjamin Zander’s epic Rule Number 6: “Don’t take yourself so g—damn seriously.”