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Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Allocating Capacity
Regardless of how we feel, capacity is not something to be solved or optimized, it’s a resource to be measured and allocated.
What's more, unless we have a lot of fidelity to significantly change our lives, our capacity will likely stay the same. Therefore, our ability to increase our sum is more or less a moot point.
Growing our c
... See moreAs long as you’re filling every hour of the day with some form of striving, you get to carry on believing that all this striving is leading you somewhere – to an imagined future state of perfection, a heavenly realm in which everything runs smoothly, your limited time causes you no pain, and you’re free of the guilty sense that there’s more you nee
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
the more firmly you believe it ought to be possible to find time for everything, the less pressure you’ll feel to ask whether any given activity is the best use for a portion of your time.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
5 lessons from one of the best books I’ve ever read
youtube.comYet everyday experience, along with centuries of philosophical reflection, attests to the fact that a fulfilling and accomplished life isn’t a matter of exerting ever more control. It’s not about making things more predictable and secure, until you can finally relax. A football match is exciting because you don’t know who’ll win; a field of intelle
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth. From this perspective, idleness isn’t merely forgivable; it’s practically an obligation.