1: Author Oliver Burkeman believes there are two basic orientations towards life.

We can either strive toward sanity.

Alternatively, we can operate from a position of sanity.

“The signature behavior of the striver-towards-sanity is ‘clearing the decks'”, Oliver writes in Meditations for Mortals

The striver-towards-sanity attempts “to deal with all the minor tasks tugging at our attention,” he notes, “in an effort to arrive at the point when we finally … continue reading