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Four Thousand Weeks, with Oliver Burkeman

Afford Anything

The Importance Trap - How to Tolerate a Certain Comfort

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For me anyway, it was a matter of adopting techniques for organizing my day and my to-do list. It gently encouraged me to learn to tolerate a certain kind of discomfort rather than to be constantly trying to eliminate that discomfort. So very simple things like leaving the deck clearing activity in your work day to the end of the day is an effective tactic.

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