Oliver Burkeman | A Contrarian Approach to Setting Your Goals for the New Year
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach.
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| 0:00.0 | And here's the twist, right? Not just because probability dictates that you're not going to be the next Elon Musk. |
| 0:06.0 | So it's useful to get your mind straight on that. |
| 0:10.0 | But also because I actually think that the more okay you are with the life you have |
| 0:16.2 | and with ordinariness and with not being a superachiever, the more sort of freed up psychologically |
| 0:21.6 | you are to actually create amazingly impressive |
| 0:24.1 | things to really make a difference in some field, perhaps even to become a sort of one of these |
| 0:29.6 | sort of stratospheric gods of the civilization, I don't know, but just, you know, to think like, okay, I'm good |
| 0:36.4 | enough as I am, I'm good enough if I don't ever do any of these things, and therefore it's all |
| 0:41.8 | extra, right? It's like a wonderful game that you can then play |
| 0:44.4 | sort of launch some cool projects and connect with some interesting people and take a few risks |
| 0:50.3 | as opposed to on some subconscious level I've got to do this or I'm not worthy to be |
| 0:55.6 | a person on planet Earth. |
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