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E125: How To Finally Stop Procrastinating: Oliver Burkeman
March 14, 2022
01:20:13
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Oliver Burkeman is the author of Four Thousand Weeks, a book that offers the most interesting perspective on how to manage your time that I’ve ever heard. He was a columnist for the Guardian newspaper for twenty years.
The key lesson of Oliver’s book is what prioritisation really means. Make a list of the twenty-five things you want to do in your life, and then forget items 6-25, try and carve out some time every single day to work on your passion. It seems simple, but if it was more people would do it.
We fill our lives with busywork in order to distract ourselves from the reality that our time is running out. This shocking insight is the key to understanding Oliver’s unique approach to achieve focus, and you might just gain some perspective along the way.
Topics:
Oliver’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Time-How
Oliver: https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman
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The key lesson of Oliver’s book is what prioritisation really means. Make a list of the twenty-five things you want to do in your life, and then forget items 6-25, try and carve out some time every single day to work on your passion. It seems simple, but if it was more people would do it.
We fill our lives with busywork in order to distract ourselves from the reality that our time is running out. This shocking insight is the key to understanding Oliver’s unique approach to achieve focus, and you might just gain some perspective along the way.
Topics:
- Why do you write about happiness?
- Happiness and meaning
- Embracing our limits
- Why do we put our happiness on the future?
- Pursuit of efficiency
- Living up to your external reputation
- Procrastination
- How to prioritise
- The water melon problem
- Why self analysis is so important
- Why do we purse ambition over happiness
- We’re addicted to the speed of life
- Embracing small changes
- Embracing our irrelevance
- A question from your book
- The last guest question
Oliver’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Time-How
Oliver: https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman
Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos
Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo
Sponsors:
Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven
Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl