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Anxiety and productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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The Importance of Fulfillment

Happiness is an emotional state and I don't think you can reasonably aim for one emotional state like at all fulfillment is something else. It's to do with looking back over the last year of your life or the last or your wholelife or the last day and feeling like you know this was like I was in the right place but also happiness might be more fleeting so we're going to get really tangled up very quickly because the goal post shifts, even if you do feel happy it'll start to be like not happy not happy enough. parenting is just ridiculousYou take people who are sort of anxious about not being able to control how things go and then you give them a kind of overwhelming emotional

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