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  This column will change your life: how to tell whether you have a bullshit job

  7 Sep 2013: 
  

  'Is the job you're doing, or applying for, one the world would be fine without? As life strategies go, this seems a decent one,' saysOliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: why terrorists make lousy bosses

  31 Aug 2013: 
  

  'To me and you, al-Qaida's Ayman al-Zawahiri may be the personification of evil,' says Oliver Burkeman. 'But to the militants he leads, he's the micromanager from hell'

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• This column will change your life: decisions, decisions

  24 Aug 2013: 
  

  'Don't take refuge in neutrality; trying to stay neutral is fraught with trouble,' says Oliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: don't die without an action plan

  17 Aug 2013: 
  

  'The next time you're struck by some insight into life's true meaning,'Oliver Burkeman says, 'reach for a pen and list two or three things you could do about it'

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• This column will change your life: the guru who didn't believe in gurus

  10 Aug 2013: 
  

  'The Theosophical Society decided Jiddu Krishnamurti was the messiah. Awkwardly,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'Krishnamurti came to believe this was bunkum'

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• This column will change your life: you snooze, you lose

  3 Aug 2013: 
  

  'The Money Shredding Alarm Clock is the perfect metaphor for capitalism,' says Oliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: why do we undervalue what we're good at?

  27 Jul 2013: 
  

  'If a talent has always come naturally, you conclude that it's nothing special,' says Oliver Burkeman. 'And so you gravitate toward whatever it is you can't do'

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• This column will change your life: anonymity isn't just for crooks and trolls

  20 Jul 2013: 
  

  'Disinhibition can be good thing,' says Oliver Burkeman. 'If feeling anonymous frees some people to be dishonest, it frees others to perform at their best'

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• This column will change your life: coffee and creativity

  13 Jul 2013: 
  

  'Coffee slides me into the working day before my procrastinatory urges can kick in: grind beans, brew coffee, plunge, pour, sip, open laptop… and I'm working before I've had a chance to protest,' says Oliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: clearer costs, better decisions

  6 Jul 2013: 
  

  'People make healthier menu choices,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'when they're told how far they'd have to walk to burn off the calories consumed'

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• This column will change your life: bragging rights and wrongs

  29 Jun 2013: 'Some forms of self-promotion aren't only forgivable, but actively welcome,' says Oliver Burkeman6 comments

• This column will change your life: what's so wrong about giving up on a book?

  22 Jun 2013: 
  

  'It's fine to abandon books or other projects,' says Oliver Burkeman. 'But you've got to really abandon them, not let them fade amid vague intentions to finish them some day'

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• This column will change your life: embrace the schedule

  15 Jun 2013: 
  

  Unhooked from the whims of mood, relieved of the pressure of decision-making, the schedule-follower may be freer than the impulse-follower, says Oliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: unspeakable emotions

  8 Jun 2013: 
  

  'Our daily lives might be full of experiences we never talk about, simply because we lack the words,' says Oliver Burkeman

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• This column will change your life: loneliness and temperature

  1 Jun 2013: 
  

  Does coldness really make people feel lonely, asks Oliver Burkeman

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