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Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Relationship Between Avoidance and Time

There is a connection there but I'm trying to put my finger on what it is. We don't want to have to consciously participate in what it feels like to be constrained by reality and so we do all sorts of things this is the theory of avoidance. Anything that is to do with postponing and deferring spares you that sort of really unpleasant confrontation, he says. But if you go too far in that direction you're just doing it well at least according to him.

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