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Oliver Burkeman (Replay): Productivity Is A Trap

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Are You Saying We Should Go Around Being Really Depressed and Gloomy?

I feel like I've always been sort of towing this walking this tightrope I don't know but whatever in the writing that I do because I wrote another book about how being open to negative thoughts and negative feelings instead of focusing relatively on positive thinking is a good thing. In a way it is a glass half empty outlook right if filling the glass to the brim is for various reasons completely impossible you know then it's useful to go forward with the glass half empty.

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