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I enjoyed reading this, but I'm not sure what the fallacy is.
You're testing out whether people will allow you to lead beyond what official authority you have. Provided you're not squelched, I imagine this will make you less stressed and more engaged. It will boost your status at well.
Clearly, you have to measure the gain of setting your own course against the risk of being perceived as overly slothful, rude, idealistic, or independent.
Passive-aggressive tactics, like making only a token effort on projects you expect to either fail or prove worthless, are indeed unsatisfying and stressful.
I'm alluding to phrases such as "work-life balance", which presuppose that work and life are two different things. They're not; it's all life.
Would it be better if they said "work/social life balance"?
I'd say worse, since "social life" strikes me as further compartmentalization of "life". I don't, separately, have a life and also a social life. Rather, I value having friends, and I will seek to make friends anywhere, including at work. Some of my best friends are colleagues or clients.
I'm pretty sure it's a euphemism for "family." If you don't have kids (or at least a spouse), then you're not really supposed to talk about it.
Only slightly.