Bogdan

“In his book Back to Sanity, the psychologist Steve Taylor recalls watching tourists at the British Museum in London who weren’t really looking at the Rosetta Stone, the ancient Egyptian artifact on display in front of them, so much as preparing to look at it later, by recording images and videos of it on their phones. So intently were they focused on using their time for a future benefit—for the ability to revisit or share the experience later on—that they were barely experiencing the exhibition itself at all.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“If you succeed in fitting more in, you’ll find the goalposts start to shift: more things will begin to seem important, meaningful, or obligatory.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“What is a “problem,” really? The most generic definition is simply that it’s something that demands that you address yourself to it.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals