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Change Your Perception of Time and Meaning with Oliver Burkeman

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The Cosmic Insignificance Idea

i think there is this sense in which we approach our time trying to sort of be god's. Trying to do more than we can tanthan we can reasonably do, set standards of control over the future. And i talk about how this is an incredibly cruel standard to put on your life. It rules out all sorts of things that we know have potential for huge meaning. But it isn't that those things are better than changing the world with a new technological innovation. The idea that only an extraordinary life is a meaningful one actually frees you up if it's on the cards for you to change history. That does make sense?

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