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That's the convenience paradox: the more we optimize our lives, the less we actually live them.
We're becoming masters of arrangement rather than action, curators instead of creators. Life risks turning into a series of frictionless transactions where we're always efficiently arriving but never really traveling.
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
Simone
For a start, a life task **will be something you can accomplish "only by effort and with difficulty,"** as Jung puts it – and specifically, I'd say, with that feeling of "good difficulty" that comes from pushing back against your conditioned preferences for comfort and security.
Find the Life Task
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And that’s the thing about worrying, it does nothing to prevent bad things from happening. Worrying does not affect the outcome of a situation, it doesn’t make adverse events less likely to occur, it just makes our life less great.
The Art of Taking It Easy
Brian King
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