Time is Not a Tool. It’s a Habitat
We treat time like something to dominate. But you live inside it.
Stop fighting time, and start flowing with it.
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If you live to 80, you get around 4000 weeks. That’s it. And yet we act like we’re immortal, hoarding goals, chasing hacks, fearing missing out. Burkeman’s book is a wake-up call: not to do more, but to do less, better. The goal isn’t control , itself meaning
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