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96: Time Management for Mortals: Oliver Burkeman

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

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Is There a Constructive Possibility in Dealing With Death?

I think the fact that any of this is, if you train your attention on that for a moment, is the sort of direct path to some kind of wonder, right? I mentioned very briefly in the book and anecdote told to me by somebody else who lost a close friend. He asked what his friend would have given to experience the things he was experiencing. All these things that life is full of are sort of not pleasant in terms of their substance, but the fact that you are doing them and that death could take them away puts a different spin on it all.

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