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Change Your Perception of Time and Meaning with Oliver Burkeman

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Is There a Need for a Meaning for Life?

i'm curious what your experience has been with respect to broadening your definition of meaning beyond liht reel type stop. I love this quote that i talk about in the book, from james hollis, the youngnpsychotherapist,. About asking whether a given experience or choice or path in life enlarges me or diminishes me. And if you just say, like, i want good experience and not negative experience, you can't distinguish between those. If you say, is there something generative, expandy, parthing? It suddenly people know the answer to this question when they're faced with these kinds of decisions. So i get slowly and painfully better at understanding

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