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On urgency, impulsivity, and the joy of unexpected recklessness

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There’s a moment that sneaks up on you in midlife – usually somewhere between your fourth Zoom of the day and a lunch that tastes vaguely like a recycled envelope – when a small but insistent question

‘I’m not a therapist,’ says Cecelia Ahern, ‘but I do know what it’s like to put everyone else first for so long, you almost disappear.’ It’s this quiet, universal truth that sits at the core of Paper