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I asked him what he thought was the biggest barrier to happiness for most people. ‘It’s just a total absence of awareness, except for the thoughts th… - Oliver Burkeman
" "I asked him what he thought was the biggest barrier to happiness for most people. ‘It’s just a total absence of awareness, except for the thoughts that are continuously passing through your mind. It is the state of being so identified with the voices in your head’ – and at this point he emitted a tight Germanic chuckle – ‘that you think you are the voices in your head.
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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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[W]e’re living in a world with effectively infinite inputs—emails you could receive, demands that could be made of you, or ambitions that you could have. Getting better at moving through them is not going to get you to the end of them, so the promise of reaching a point at which you feel on top of everything is flawed on a math basis from the beginning.
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The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important — or just for enough of what feels important — is that you definitely never will. The reason isn't that you haven't yet discovered the right time management tricks or supplied sufficient effort, or that you need to start getting up earlier, or that you're generally useless. It's that the underlying assumption is unwarranted: there's no reason to believe you'll ever feel 'on top of things,' or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.
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