How To Properly Manage Your Time - Oliver Burkeman | Modern Wisdom Podcast 365

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and an author. Time is something we all wish we had more of and tons of productivity gurus have proposed strategies to stop it from slipping through our fingers. After years of investigating and reporting on cutting-edge productivity for The Guardian, Oliver has arrived at a slightly different worldview of time and how we should manage it. Expect to learn why becoming more efficient often just leads to you getting more useless work done, the fundamental problems which all time management strategies fail to address, how deciding what you're going to fail at is a superpower, the danger of seeing your leisure time as an arena for self-improvement and much more... Sponsors: Get a free gift from Tiege Hanley when you try their skincare range at http://tiege.com/modernwisdom (deal automatically applied) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Buy Four Thousand Weeks - https://amzn.to/3BhqQJR Follow Oliver on Twitter - https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #timemanagement #productivity #efficiency - 00:00 Intro 00:29 Unique Challenges of Time 09:34 The Dangers of Over-productivity 19:24 Solving the Efficiency Trap 26:18 What to Say ‘No’ To 38:07 Letting Go of To-Do List Anxiety 46:39 Forsaking Present for Future 56:03 Productivity as Denial of Mortality 1:01:33 Seeing Life as a Gift - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Oliver BurkemanguestChris Williamsonhost

Aug 30, 20211h 5mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 30, 2021
Duration: 1h 5m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and an author. Time is something we all wish we had more of and tons of productivity gurus have proposed strategies to stop it from slipping through our fingers. After years of investigating and reporting on cutting-edge productivity for The Guardian, Oliver has arrived at a slightly different worldview of time and how we should manage it. Expect to learn why becoming more efficient often just leads to you getting more useless work done, the fundamental problems which all time management strategies fail to address, how deciding what you're going to fail at is a superpower, the danger of seeing your leisure time as an arena for self-improvement and much more... Sponsors: Get a free gift from Tiege Hanley when you try their skincare range at http://tiege.com/modernwisdom (deal automatically applied) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Buy Four Thousand Weeks - https://amzn.to/3BhqQJR Follow Oliver on Twitter - https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #timemanagement #productivity #efficiency - 00:00 Intro 00:29 Unique Challenges of Time 09:34 The Dangers of Over-productivity 19:24 Solving the Efficiency Trap 26:18 What to Say ‘No’ To 38:07 Letting Go of To-Do List Anxiety 46:39 Forsaking Present for Future 56:03 Productivity as Denial of Mortality 1:01:33 Seeing Life as a Gift - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Oliver Burkeman
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Oliver Burkeman and Chris Williamson, How To Properly Manage Your Time - Oliver Burkeman | Modern Wisdom Podcast 365 explores stop Chasing Perfect Productivity: Embrace Finitude To Use Time Well Oliver Burkeman argues that most modern time management is a doomed quest for total control over an inherently uncontrollable, finite life. We live as if we can and should do more than is humanly possible, generating chronic overwhelm and the illusion that the right system will finally let us “catch up.”

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