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Anxiety and productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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The Importance of Living the Life You Want to Live

There's a difference between avoidance and actually working with myself. Sometimes what makes people worry or anxious especially in the culture that we live in now is actually living a life that looks too ordinary, he says. The anxiety of not fulfilling your potential feels like something I'm quite familiar with in a way it's like an old friend saying to me "I don't know why you're still here" It can easily be the anxiety of not fulfilled your potential according to him.

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