Challenge #008

Phase 1: The Familiar Self

Where your journey begins: the roles, beliefs, and patterns you’ve been living — often without question.

008 Prompt:

🕰 When do I feel most like I’m “wasting time” — and what does that say about what I value?

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Going Deeper

Time guilt is often a sign of misaligned values or inherited beliefs. This podcast episode with Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, reframes our relationship to time and meaning.

🔗 Ezra Klein Interviews Oliver Burkeman – NYT

Insights & Surprises

This is where we feature insights others have shared, or fun surprises and rewards 😉 

“Mapping my ‘time sucks’ revealed that scrolling art subreddits is my laboratory. The guilt melted into goosebumps. Two sketches later, a client DM’d: ‘I need that style!’ Guilt → gold.”
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Lena K. · Freelance Illustrator

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