Personal Development "Choose 'enlargement' over happiness," and 7 other things Oliver Burkeman learned in 10 years of writing an advice column
Oliver Burkeman says we'll go nuts if we try not to neglect anything. Instead we should spend our precious energy "proactively and consciously choosing what to neglect, in favor of what matters most."
Before Oliver Burkeman was known as the author of the popular book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals, he was the writer of a popular advice column in the Guardian’s Weekend magazine. Three years ago this month he wrote a final column, one that gathered some of what he had learned. He did not intend the article to be an exhaustive summary, "but these are the principles that surfaced again and again, and that now seem to me most useful for navigating times as baffling and stress-inducing as ours."
He had me at the first one: "There will always be too much to do – and this realization is liberating."
