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What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman
This was what I had begun to grasp, on that park bench in Brooklyn, and I still think it’s the single best antidote to the feeling of time pressure, a splendidly liberating first step on the path of embracing your limits: the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you
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none of this was ever going to work. I would never succeed in marshaling enough efficiency, self-discipline, and effort to force my way through to the feeling that I was on top of everything, that I was fulfilling all my obligations and had no need to worry about the future. Ironically, the realization that this had been a useless strategy for atta
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Facing Reality Leads to Inner Peace
🧘♂️ Accepting limitations brings inner peace: Realizing that doing everything is impossible can reduce anxiety and free you to focus on what truly matters.
✅ Action without utopian expectations: Once you accept limitations, you can act simply because tasks are worth doing, not because you hope to reach perfect
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The fundamental problem is that this attitude toward time sets up a rigged game in which it’s impossible ever to feel as though you’re doing well enough. Instead of simply living our lives as they unfold in time—instead of just being time, you might say—it becomes difficult not to value each moment primarily according to its usefulness for some fut
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