I spent a lot of my young adulthood thinking that I had to do certain things. And actually, it's when you're not sort of tightly gripping on your goals like that, because you don't need those things for validation. You are free to just like, hey, you know, send that thing to that person at that company. Who knows? It doesn't matter if if the if this suggestion for a really exciting project gets turned down. That makes you freer and ease with putting yourself forward in those ways.
Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach.
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