Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here.
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Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here.
Superficially, this seems like a sensible way to live, especially in a hypercompetitive economic climate, in which it feels as though you must constantly make the most judicious use of your time if you want to stay afloat. (It also reflects the manner in which most of us were raised: to prioritize future benefits over current enjoyments.) But
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The antidote to burnout and the existential inquiry it brings seems to be doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale. It becomes exciting not to see what you can do without limits, but to see what you can do with them.
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
Embracing human limitations through self-compassion and accepting our fundamental vulnerability to life's uncertainties and uncontrollable events
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I feel like is part of this. I wanna tease out some of the core tenets in your work, many of which stem from 4 Weeks which is sort of your seminal work and we going to talk about meditations for mortals which is really a means of practically applying these same ideas. Is that fair? Yeah, I think it is.
Explain this idea of a limit-embracing life.
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