1: “It’s always the same list,” Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.

How to live a fulfilling life. It’s always the same list.

“Nurture our relationships, pursue challenging goals, spend time in nature, and make room for fun,” Oliver notes.

But we knew that already.  

“If following a list was all it took, we’d have solved … continue reading

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