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#355 BITESIZE | How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed | Oliver Burkeman

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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The Myth of Work Life Balance

I guess what you're talking about certainly to me is intentionality about living an intentional life like understanding that we're making choices all the time and actually many of us are making choices that we don't even realize we're making. I know there will be people listening right now this minute who are struggling and think at some point work like balance is going to be nailed but that's a myth isn't it? It sounds so lovely but it tends to end up meaning in people's lives is that they feel the pressure to sort of be a hundred percent perfect at work and a hundred percentperfect in life outside work. That starts to become impossible because a hundred percent plus a hundred percent is two

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