Oliver Burkeman’s Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life

There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating.When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness.The capacity to tolerate minor discomfort is a superpower. The advice you don’t want to hear is usually the advice you need.The future will never provide the reassurance you seek from it.The solution to imposter … Continue reading Oliver Burkeman’s Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life

Mary’s Room

"The questions raised by ‘Mary’s Room’ – including whether anything about experience transcends physical facts – remain some of the most perennial and unsettled in philosophy, even if Jackson himself actually reversed his position, concluding that the experience of colour vision does indeed correspond to a brain state, albeit one we don’t yet fully understand."—TED-Ed, … Continue reading Mary’s Room