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Oliver Burkeman: What if I never change?

Hurry Slowly

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The Paradox of Limitation

The more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty and frustrating life gets. But the more you confront the facts of finitude instead, and work with them rather than against them, the more productive, meaningful and joyful life becomes. You talk about the paradox of limitation in your book "Em"

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