Daily: Much To Do Gets You Nothing – Oliver Burkeman on the cult of productivity
If we stopped trying to do everything, would we finally get chance to do what counts? Do to-do lists create anything but meaningless pressure?
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Show Notes
If we stopped trying to do everything, would we finally get chance to do what counts? Do to-do lists create anything but meaningless pressure? Can we ever really get everything done? Journalist Oliver Burkeman talks to Dorian Lynskey about how to answer the ultimate time management problem – the question of how best to use our brief moment on the planet – in his new book Four Thousand Weeks.
- “We’re all drawn to things that we struggle with.”
- “There shouldn't be anything embarrassing about the concept of self-help. It has developed a bad reputation on the basis of bad approaches.”
- “The action of clearing the decks just adds to the decks."
- “Time used to be a medium, not a resource.”
Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Oliver-Burkeman/Four-Thousand-Weeks--Time-and-How-to-Use-it/25942066
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