Oliver Burkeman | A Contrarian Approach to Setting Your Goals for the New Year
Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach.
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Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach.
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Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman is a feature writer for The Guardian newspaper. He is a winner of the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award, and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life, and has reported from London, Washington and New York.
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