Oliver Burkeman
Contributor, Guardian US at The Guardian
Writer at Freelance
Embracing limitation & getting around to what counts in bewildering times. 4000 Weeks / The Imperfectionist / MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS out now in UK, US & Canada
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1 month ago |
secretorum.life | Oliver Burkeman |Roger’s Bacon
It’s painful to confront how limited your time is, because it means that tough choices are inevitable and that you won't have time for all you once dreamed you might do. It’s also painful to accept your limited control over the time you do get: maybe you simply lack the stamina or talent or other resources to perform well in all the roles you feel you should. And so, rather than face our limitations, we engage in avoidance strategies, in an effort to carry on feeling limitless.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
behavioralscientist.org | Oliver Burkeman
Meditations for Mortals is about how the world opens up once you realize you’re never going to sort your life out. It’s about how marvelously productive you become when you give up the grim-faced quest to make yourself more and more productive; and how much easier it gets to do bold and important things once you accept that you’ll never get around to more than a handful of them (and that, strictly speaking, you don’t absolutely need to do any of them at all).
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Jan 4, 2025 |
msn.com | Oliver Burkeman
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Jan 4, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Chris Godfrey |Oliver Burkeman |Sam Pyrah |Joe Coen |Evelyn Miller
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Jan 3, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Oliver Burkeman
One problem with trying to improve your life is that, all too often, the improvements you’re attempting have little to do with your life. That’s especially obvious when, say, you seek to emulate the extreme fitness routine of a high-profile influencer, overlooking the fact that he or she has a team of assistants to free up all the time it requires.
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In the end for me it all just comes back around to the Access Hollywood tape I think. I've never understood how you manipulate your brain into overlooking that, and I assume I never will
RT @BookStroud: Feels like *excellent* advice right now. We’re looking forward to hearing more from Oliver this Thursday, too… https://…
Every so often I see the advice that email newsletters should be really short, and occasionally someone emails me to tell me mine should be shorter! In fact, the amazing thing about email newsletters is that they help you connect to the people who like the thing *you* like to do
