Should You Just Give Up? | The New Yorker
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In “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” Oliver Burkeman, his idea is that acknowledging our limits will allow us to accomplish more of what matters to us while “enjoying life now.” But our anguish, Phillips suggests, flows partly from the b
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- In “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” Oliver Burkeman,
- his idea is that acknowledging our limits will allow us to accomplish more of what matters to us while “enjoying life now.”
- But our anguish, Phillips suggests, flows partly from the bizarre way we associate giving up with annihilation.
- It would be nice if, before we gave up, we could decide on the meaning of what we’re doing.
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