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Change Your Perception of Time and Meaning with Oliver Burkeman

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CHAPTER

The Cosmic Insignificance Therapy

I want to hit you with another of your own quotes for a momenta, very long one. Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. And truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn't a matter of resolving to do something remarkable with them. It entails refusing to hold to an abstract and over demanding standard of remarkableness against which they can only ever be found wanting. Taking them instead on their own terms, dropping back down from godlike pantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it concretely, finitely andoften enough, marvellously really is.

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