The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instea…

- Oliver Burkeman

It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - …

- Oliver Burkeman

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

- Oliver Burkeman

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't …

- Oliver Burkeman

What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To…

- Oliver Burkeman

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

- Oliver Burkeman

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

- Oliver Burkeman

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittl…

- Oliver Burkeman

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the futu…

- Oliver Burkeman