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#289 — Time Management for Mortals
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Do You Have a Fear of Missing Out?
I think the modern obsession with personal productivity can often be another way of avoiding responsibility for our choices, right? You get to dodge the responsibilities of finitude by convincing yourself that in some sense you're not finite. And you can probably see how the internet makes all this a lot worse because it promises to help us make better use of our time but also exposes us to vastly more potential uses for our time. So if you're somebody who is plagued by this fear of missing out, it can be surprisingly powerful just to understand that in fact missing out is inevitable. It's baked into the human condition that we will miss out on almost everything so that fearing missing out makes no real sense. But
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