It’s Worse than You Think
Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.” Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they’d better not be, because results always come later—and later is always too late.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
This is a book about how the world opens up once you realise you’re never going to sort your life out.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasp... See more