Existential Time Management with Oliver Burkeman
Minds and Mics
Anti-Skills
Do you think anti-skills follow the same sort of developmental model as traditional skills like learning to play the piano or anything else? Like do you think it follows this kind of muscle practice metaphor where if you focus and you practice it, you'll get better at it and it will get easier over time. Would you say that? Or do you think, is that a false expectation? I mean, I have no real idea about whether what I'm talking about here is gonna follow specific sort of ways of developing it. It's the skill of remaining sort of present in the presence of the kinds of emotions that we very easily use as a reason to go off and do something else to make
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