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Time Management for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman

December 3, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and writer based in New York.  He is well known not only for his amazing books, but he also wrote a popular weekly column on psychology called “This Column will Change Your Life” which was printed weekly between 2006 and 2020. 

Oliver joins Eric for a third time on the show, and in this episode, they discuss many things, including his new book, “Four Thousand Weeks:  Time Management for Mortals”

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Oliver Burkeman and I Discuss Time Management for Mortals and …

  • His book, “Four Thousand Weeks:  Time Management for Mortals”
  • How we invest more energy and focus on trying to escape certain feelings
  • Finitude and understanding that life is finite
  • Time and how we relate to it as something we have and use
  • The idea that we are time rather than we have time
  • Accepting the truth of your finitude allows you to live more in the present
  • Confusing meaningful with extraordinary
  • Cosmic insignificance therapy suggests that we reexamine the threshold of what makes a meaningful life
  • Our tendency to want to define and measure what is meaningful in life
  • How the pursuit of using time well can lead us to live in the future rather than being present
  • Asking ourselves if something is expanding or contracting to us
  • The modern attention economy and being aware if we are choosing where our attention goes
  • How the things that matter most to us can provoke unpleasant emotions that lead to seeking distractions
  • The problem isn’t how things are, but rather how we think they should be a certain way
  • Trying too hard to be present in the moment 
  • Accepting the impossibility of complete control 

Oliver Burkeman Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Oliver Burkeman, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Oliver Burkeman on Modern Time Management (2019)

Oliver Burkeman (2014)

Living Between Worlds with James Hollis

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Oliver Burkeman on Modern Time Management

March 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning writer for The Guardian and his book, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking explores the upsides of failure, difficulty, and imperfection – which we discussed in our first interview with Oliver several hundred episodes ago. Each week in his column in The Guardian, “This Column Will Change Your Life”, he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity, and the science of happiness. In this interview, he discusses his take on time management in today’s world.

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In This Interview, Oliver Burkeman and I Discuss…

  • His take on the modern time management world
  • That technologies of efficiency don’t seem to bring peace of mind
  • How your to-do list is never going to go away
  • That having emails in your inbox is not necessarily a problem
  • Time management whispers of the possibility of true peace of mind
  • Thinking of “a simpler time”
  • How processing through your inbox is like climbing up an infinitely long ladder
  • That tough choices have to be made when deciding what to do with your time – no matter how many productivity assists you have
  • How it’s often easier to spend time on trivial stuff than the big projects
  • David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done
  • How no one beats them self up for not being able to jump a mile in the air because they never thought they could in the first place
  • Similarly, accepting the real limitations in how much time you have and how much you can get done is incredibly liberating 
  • Productivity advice from Warren Buffet
  • The role social media plays in our expectations about how productive we could or should be
  • How digital distractions help us numb out

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If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Oliver Burkeman (2014)

John Zeratsky

Chris Bailey

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002: Oliver Burkeman – The One You Feed

January 12, 2014 9 Comments

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This week on The One You Feed our guest is Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a journalist for the Guardian and the author of a wonderful book called The Antidote: Happiness for People who Hate Positive Thinking. Oliver is funny, thoughtful and articulate. I think it was a great interview.

In This Interview Oliver and I discuss…

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  • The One You Feed parable.
  • Why you should ask yourself:  “What is the worst thing that could happen”.
  • Do you have a problem right now?.
  • What musterbation is and why you should avoid it.
  • Why positive thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
  • Why focusing too much on your goals can be counterproductive.
  • How many wars were started in world history because somebody forgot their coffee in the AM.
  • What pop songs can Oliver not get out of his head.
  • Why positive thinking abhors a mystery.

 Oliver Burkeman Bio:

Oliver Burkeman is a  writer for The Guardian and he is based in Brooklyn, New York. His  new book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking explores the upsides of negativity, uncertainty, failure and imperfection. Each week inThis Column Will Change Your Life  he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness, and makes unprovoked attacks on The Secret.

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Oliver Burkeman

January 9, 2014 Leave a Comment

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