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Episode 17: The absurd brevity of life with Oliver Burkeman

Reconsidering

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Middling Opportunities

In the book, you talk about middling opportunities. Those are things that you could do, like that'd be a pretty good thing to do, but it may not be the best choice to do. I think we all have experience of an friendships and involvements where time invested doesn't really seem to map given that they are taking away time from things that we know are really important. Once you are making decisions among things that you feel are very, very meaningful, i agree that then, i mean, a lot of time can be wasted trying to decide between them when the answer is that it kind of doesn't matter very much.

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