What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman

It’s tempting to imagine that ending or at least easing the struggle with time might also make you happy, most or all of the time. But I’ve no reason to believe that’s true. Our finite lives are filled with all the painful problems of finitude, from overfilled inboxes to death, and confronting them doesn’t stop them from feeling like problems—or no... See more

Embracing Limitations

📝 The feeling of being overwhelmed by a to-do list is a common modern predicament.

🤯 The problem isn't just having too many things to do, but that the incoming supply of tasks is infinite, making completion impossible.

🧘 A psychological shift occurs when we accept that a difficult struggle is actually impossible. Anxiety dec

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The reason this is so liberating, for anyone with even a hint of perfectionism, is that it means you get to give up on the exhausting struggle to take charge of your life, so as to steer it in a new direction. You get to abandon all hope of one day finding the perfect time management system– or perfect relationship, job, neighborhood, etcetera– and

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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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