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But what do we have more need for, in our whirling mental worlds, than strength and concentration and patience and humility? These are virtues worth aspiring to, especially because they lead to new and greater delights.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
Time management gurus rarely stop to ask whether the task of merely staying afloat in the modern economy – holding down a job, paying the mortgage, being a good-enough parent – really ought to require rendering ourselves inhumanly efficient in the first place.
Why Time Management Is Ruining Our Lives
Oliver Burkeman
Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that equitable, balanced societies make for happier residents.
Denmark, Finland, and the ‘Secrets’ of the Happiest Countries - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
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