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Sacred Live: Oliver Burkeman on living a meaningful life in the present moment

The Sacred

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The Antidote to Negativity

I wanted to explore the idea that one level down, there's something in that positivity approach that actually we do all subscribe to and that does lead us astray. There is this incredible liberation in seeing that the problems and that we have in life are kind of worse than we think. If you see that it's completely impossible to make time for everything in your to-do list, then you have hit the ground - at that point you can sort of stand up and start building a meaningful life.

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