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It's alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you're doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything el… - Oliver Burkeman
" "It's alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you're doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it's liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all — to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they're aware of it or not.
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About Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the British newspaper The Guardian) and writer.
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