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Oliver Burkeman asks us to spend one day on each chapter, ideally, and evaluate how hard we are on ourselves. Instead of falling into the prouductivity porn culture surrounding us, where we rush through everything so we can get more done, he asks us to embrace our limitations and let a lot of our tasks go. We were never going to do them anyway so why are we feeling guilty about them.
We will always have lists of things to read accumulating faster than we could ever read them. There is always another chore around the house to do and another friend that feels we should visit.
Let yourself be mortal. Embrace the limitations on your time. Exist today and enjoy the life that you’re living without putting of good things until some unknown time later.
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