If the past was different from the present, so may the future be.” Be Like Sisyphus© Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Getty ...

Sisyphus: The Myth Season 1 is a fantasy-mystery drama that centers on Han Tae-sul, a gifted engineer who sets out to discover the reason behind his elder brother’s demise, and Kang Seo-hae, a ...

This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve. They will get better. They have to. But when it comes to the big ...

Sisyphus’ punishment for speaking out is to effort the stone up the mountain. In Camus’ interpretation, Sisyphus is well aware of his situation, of what led up to it as well as what his future will be ...

But if Sisyphus understands that there is no future, that any effort is futile, why does he continue to climb the hill for the rest of eternity? What’s the point?

— Sisyphus stumbles on a loose rock and slips down the hill. He catches himself, then keeps going. — The weekend comes and goes; of course there are tasks that remain unfinished.

The story of Sisyphus illustrates how frustrating it is for employees to continuously struggle in their work, seeing absolutely no purpose or value in it. Dan Ariely conducted a study recently ...