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Stop avoiding your problems and start addressing them | Oliver Burkeman for BT+

Stop avoiding your problems and start addressing them | Oliver Burkeman for BT+

Update: 2025-10-29
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Most of us are quietly waiting for our life’s problems to subside. We feel that after “solving” them, everything will be perfect, and we’ll achieve complete happiness.

In actuality, learning to live in the problems that come our way can make us happier, and expecting a frictionless life actually causes more strife for us. Journalist Oliver Burkeman reframes challenges as the path to a more meaningful life.

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About Oliver Burkeman:

Oliver Burkeman is a bestselling author and journalist. He is best known for Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (2021), a self-help book on reframing productivity for happiness. He also publishes The Imperfectionist, an email on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.

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Stop avoiding your problems and start addressing them | Oliver Burkeman for BT+

Stop avoiding your problems and start addressing them | Oliver Burkeman for BT+

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