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#048: Oliver Burkeman — Writing Impactful Articles, Making the Most of Our Finite Lives, Reevaluate Your Relationship With Time, Being Happier

London Writers' Salon

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The Uncanny Ability to Dig Under the Skin of Us as Humans

I think everyone who knows you from those columns remembers the moment when they read their first Berkman column. And for me, it was in 2014, and I love that. The vein of that article is a big picture of Obama and saying, yes, even this guy's winging it. Is there anything surprising? My assumption would be that it was obvious that I was winging everything from the outside bank. It's like it's always never the case with other people whose insights we don't see. Do these things come natural to you or what if that comes natural and what if that has you had to work at?

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