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Anxiety and productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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How to Make a Decision That Makes You Happy

I think it's a mistake to ask the question what well which things that I choose what will make me happiest because we're so bad at judging what will what will make us happy and yet this question about whether something will enlarge you or diminish you sort of speaks to this question. You know the prospect of doing something can make you anxious and it can be the kind of thing that you should do anyway or the kind ofthing that you shouldn't bother doing. navigating between those is quite is quite tricky but when I ask the question like is this enlarging me would this be growth then it's a lot easier to sort of move forward with the things that you might worry aboutbut that are for

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