Hillary Kelly interviews author Oliver Burkemann for The Atlantic:
Burkeman cheerfully acknowledges that repetition is vital to his message—and to the way we self-reinforce it. A favorite tweet, he told me with a hearty laugh, goes something like this: “Four Thousand Weeks is basically just Oliver Burkeman shouting You are finite; you’re going to die over and over again for 200-whatever pages. And I love it.” His belief in the power of repetition is partly what inspired him to undertake Meditations for Mortals : “Even if the advice is excellent and exactly right, that doesn’t mean it sticks,” he told me; it “doesn’t mean that you can just hear it and then go implement it.” You need what he calls a “felt realization”—something that sinks into your bones.