The insignificance isn't the problem. It's the solution.

Think about the pressure we put on ourselves to matter, to make a mark, to be significant. We choose careers based partly on how impressive they sound at dinner parties or on imagine appearances on imagined talk shows. We agonize over decisions as if the fate of the world hangs on them. We

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Cosmic Insignificance Therapy

• Cosmic insignificance therapy finds empowerment in our smallness.


• It allows for bold choices and broadens our definition of a meaningful life.

Transcript:

Michael Maddaus

Thing here, and this is brilliant, at least from my perspective, and that is the notion of cosmic insignificance therapy.

Oliver Burkeman

What is cosmic

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The hardest, recurring psychological task of my life has been learning to accept the absurdity of existence, to see ambition and achievement for the false gods they are, and to understand, truly understand, how one can flourish in what looks, from the outside, like mediocrity.