The Importance of Accepting the Now What

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I think either being blindly optimistic or just kind of resting in despair, those are both kind of a way of pulling back from the actual details of a situation like as it's unfolding right now. I sometimes, what was the phrase again, say it again in Tagalog? Baha'la Na. Yeah. What a, that's such a beautiful sentiment. And I find myself adopting that point of view sometimes where I think a negative way that it's put in English is it is what it is, which is that people often hate to hear that. But that is a perspective I try to take sometimes. You can never sort of like rest, you know, or feel like you have

Our conception of time is a construct, so why does it have so much power over us? Adam and author Jenny Odell delve into the history of "time" as we know it, and how the popular obsession with trying to make the most of every second is a losing battle. Pick up Jenny's book at factuallypod.com/books

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