Anxiety and productivity with Oliver Burkeman
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Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
I was really influenced by a book called Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World by a philosopher called Ido Landau and he makes this point that there's just something very cruel to ourselves about having a definition of a meaningful life. Even the most famous people in our society today who might well be remembered 200 years from now you can always just turn it around by saying well okay what about 1000 years from now like what about 10,000 years from now moats are in Beethoven won't be remembered and maybe there won't be human beings. If on the other hand you say well maybe that's not what meaning is maybe maybe meaning is a sort of a feeling of being fully
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