Four Thousand Weeks: Oliver Burkeman
Reasons Revisited
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Why Do We Shy Away From Our Finitude?
"Cosmic insignificance therapy" is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. "I think people sort of intuitively feel that they're meaningful," she says. But we're in this culture, obersy, that's committed to the idea that like it has to be fame, or changing the world in a silicon valley terms,. She writes: 'Why should we hold our daily lives to a standard that most of what we do as humans can't meet?'
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