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Making matters worse, because they scatter their energy in so many different directions, they aren’t able to complete even one thing.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
There is a sort of cruelty, Iddo Landau points out, in holding yourself to standards nobody could ever reach (and which many of us would never dream of demanding of other people). The more humane approach is to drop such efforts as completely as you can. Let your impossible standards crash to the ground. Then pick a few meaningful tasks from the rubble and get started on them today.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
planning is an essential tool for constructing a meaningful life, and for exercising our responsibilities toward other people. The real problem isn’t planning. It’s that we take our plans to be something they aren’t. What we forget, or can’t bear to confront, is that, in the words of the American meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein, “a plan is just a thought.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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