Fran Scott: I'm one of those kind of stressed out overachievers who is kind of, it's the whole sort of fixed mindset thing. He says he got pretty ill in a mild way when it came to university out of some notion that he was going to do terribly badly and needed to do really well. "I think part of my journey since then has been, has been unclenching that grip"
Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach.
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