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An epiphany is always a good way to begin a show.

And the British writer Oliver Berkman had one about 10 years ago, a bona fide epiphany, on a bench, in a park, in Brooklyn, where he lived then.

And I was kind of even more stressed and anxious than I usually was at that time about all the

deadlines that I had to get through by the end of the week, all the other tasks that were

sort of piling up on my to-do list.

And I was sitting there doing something that I'd done many times before, sort of piling up on my to-do list. And I was sitting there doing something

that I'd done many times before, sort of cycling through all the kind of productivity

techniques and time management tricks I could maybe use to actually get through all this

stuff, you know, figure out which social events I could cancel, how much I could

reduce my sleep to sort of make it all fit in.

And just being suddenly struck very powerfully by the realization, oh, oh, it's impossible. I'm trying to do

something impossible. I'm trying to fit in a number of things that can't be fit in to the time

available and just really experiencing that thought in that moment as an extraordinary liberation, a weight of my shoulders.

It's pretty difficult to keep on beating yourself up for failing to do something that you have

understood nobody could ever do.

And it's liberating because there's a kind of a shift.

When you go from seeing some challenge is very, very difficult

and that it'll reflect badly on you if you can't pull it off,

if you go from that to seeing that this challenge is in fact

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