Saving Time
“The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.” Our struggle to stay on top of everything may serve someone’s interests; working longer hours—and using any ext
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what “matters” is subjective, so you’ve no grounds for assuming that there will be time for everything that you, or your employer, or your culture happens to deem important. But the other exasperating issue is that if you succeed in fitting more in, you’ll find the goalposts start to shift:
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Thinking about the fact that time is not infinite can help the present world achieve a level of self-actualization that society is starting to collectively grasp.
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