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Meditations for Mortals: Week 2
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Meditations for Mortals: Week 2

The art of taking imperfect action

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Nov 17, 2024
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Hello, readers!

After laying some of the mindset groundwork in week one, Burkeman uses week two to extol the virtues of action. What good is it if we have the right mental model or the right philosophy, but nothing changes in our day-to-day existence?

As Oliver rightly points us, most of us “already know when we’re hiding out in some domain of life” — w…

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