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Oliver Burkeman: What if I never change?

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When I Finally Mind Set

A lot of the ways that we end up using time in a counter productive way, i think, sir, is that they serve a purpose of emotional avoidance. They are a more comfortable way to be than what would be entailed by really facing the facts about our limited time and our limited control over how our time unfolds. To be chasing th notion that next week, or next month, or next year, you're going to have a your life completely in working order and be a super productive er, master of your time. It's sort of lovely in a way. But it's really kind of comfortable in a troublesome way, because it means you don't actually have to as the doing

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