On Settling
A piece of wisdom from ‘Four Thousand Weeks’
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1 min readJan 25, 2022
Never settle. It’s so ingrained in my mind that when I read Oliver Burkeman’s insistence that living life to the fullest requires settling(with a reference to Robert Goodin’s ‘On Settling’), I read it twice.
Settling is the yardstick I’ve always measured my life with — by the standards of which I’d considered myself a failure. Because I…
