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Deep Dive with Ali AbdaalProductivity Expert On How Productivity Ruins Your Life - Oliver Burkeman
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- January 24, 2022
- Duration
- 2h 5m
- Channel
- Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Hey friends, in this weeks episode of Deep Dive I chat to author and journalist Oliver Burkeman. For many years Oliver wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, happiness and productivity for The Guardian called 'This Column Will Change Your Life' and has also written a handful of books including 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time And How To Use It' which looks at how our obsessiveness with being busy and trying to master our time can actually make us more unhappy, avoid important decisions about our future and make us less in control of our lives. In the conversation we discuss what most productivity gurus get wrong about productivity, how you will never get everything done and why you should start embracing the fact of human finitude. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast Season 2 Episode 2 ⭐️ First 200 get 20% off the annual premium subscription for Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/deepdive ⭐️ 42% off annual plans at Curiosity Stream and complimentary access to Nebula: https://curiositystream.com/deepdive 00:00 Intro 02:03 Being A Productivity Guru 05:30 We Have 4,000 Weeks To Live 10:34 The Truth About Productivity And Time 46:00 How To Think About Goal Setting 01:00:11 Stepping Into The Reality Of Your Life 01:10:10 Ten Tools For Embracing Your Finitude 01:23:58 Social Media Q&A 01:53:36 Quick-Fire Questions 🔗 CONNECT WITH OLIVER 📕 Book - 4000 Weeks Time And How To Use It - https://geni.us/076mG 💻 Website - https://www.oliverburkeman.com/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman 📧 Newsletter - https://www.oliverburkeman.com/the-imperfectionist 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED Oliver’s Guardian Column ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’ - https://bit.ly/3GPH28B Happy by Derren Brown - https://geni.us/bWpd9lk A Book Of Secrets by Derren Brown - https://geni.us/reABIgA Getting Things Done by David Allen - https://geni.us/UVgx The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman - https://geni.us/cYJIs0 Traction by Gino Wickman - https://geni.us/BCc4K How Writers Journey To Comfort And Fluency by Robert Boice - https://geni.us/3Krbswx The Evolution Of Desire by David M Buss - https://geni.us/KCA6sh4 Effortless by Greg Mckewon - https://geni.us/PD9p7dm Satre's Concept Of Bad Faith - https://bit.ly/3qMb1bH Giving What We Can - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ 12 Rules For Life - The Antidote To Chaos by Jordan Peterson - https://geni.us/ogBn79 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. In each episode, Ali has conversations with guests from wide-ranging areas around the five pillars of a good life: health, wealth, love, happiness and impact - to empower you to live your best life. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🧠 SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT This episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription. 🍿 SPONSORED BY CURIOSITY STREAM This episode is kindly supported by Curiosity Stream, the leading streaming subscription platform that gives you access to thousands of documentaries and non-fiction titles. Curiosity stream also support independent creators on their platform Nebula which is run by me and other creators where you can access exclusive content including the original episodes of Deep Dive which you won't find anywhere else. You also get early, ad free access to mine and a bunch of other creators videos. Sign up at https://curiositystream.com/deepdive and you'll get 42% off annual plans as well as FREE ACCESS to Nebula as a part of the bundle. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜
SPEAKERS
Ali Abdaal
hostDoctor-turned productivity creator and host of the Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal podcast.
Oliver Burkeman
guestAuthor and journalist (The Guardian), known for Four Thousand Weeks and the newsletter The Imperfectionist.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Ali Abdaal and Oliver Burkeman, Productivity Expert On How Productivity Ruins Your Life - Oliver Burkeman explores Why accepting time’s limits beats chasing perfect productivity systems Oliver Burkeman and Ali Abdaal discuss how common productivity culture implies you can “get on top of everything,” while Oliver argues that finitude makes that impossible and that accepting limits is liberating rather than defeatist.
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