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242. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management with Oliver Burkeman

Psychologists Off the Clock

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Is There a Paradox of Life Being Finite?

I think you're bringing up something really important that that you write about in the chapter, what cosmic insignificance there be. And so i wonder if you can, i'll just read a quote from your book. But the idea is that this kind of treatment can help you drop back down from godlike fantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it is,. concretely, finitely and often enough, marvellously. Really is this kind of like a mind blowing idea that recognizing that we might live a fairly insignificant life can actually be help.

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