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This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to strive too ardently for any si… - Oliver Burkeman
" "This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to strive too ardently for any single vision of the future. As Chris Kayes pointed out, the mountaineers who died climbing Everest in 1996 did successfully reach their goal; they ascended to the summit. the tragic unintended consequence was that they didn't make it back down alive.
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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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it becomes a lot more intuitive to project your thoughts about your life into an imagined future, leaving you anxiously wondering if things will unfold as you want them to. Soon, your sense of self-worth gets completely bound up with how you're using time: it stops being merely the water in which you swim and turns into something you feel you need to dominate or control, if you're to avoid feeling guilty, panicked, or overwhelmed.
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