Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
This is a very good point. People tend to look for more "balance" when they are unhappy with whatever their main focus is right now. The obvious example applies: people don't like their day jobs very much, and so they go around advocating more "work-life balance" to compensate for it, because they feel it is a necessary evil. It's not (at least in most cases).If you're not happy with whatever your main focus is, you need to change it, not add more stuff to compensate.(Of course, there are still some things that you should pay attention to apart from your main focus, like your health and family. This is not the point here).