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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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Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity and Meditation

August 28, 2018 3 Comments

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Chris Bailey ran a year-long productivity project where he studied and ran experiments on the subject. To date, he’s written hundreds of articles on the topic which have been published in places like the Huffington Post, The New York Times and LifeHacker. In this episode, Chris and Eric discuss his new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction and they cover many topics and techniques to improve your focus and productivity. In addition to being a lovely person, he is also a true expert on this topic and you’ll walk away with useful information, no matter how productive you are to begin with.

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In This Interview, Chris Bailey and I Discuss…

  • His new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World  of Distraction
  • That what we notice is what we become
  • The state of our attention determines the state of our lives
  • The hourly awareness chime
  • How our mind gravitates to things that are any of these three things: pleasurable, threatening or novel
  • The measures he uses to determine the quality of attention: how long we can hold our focus, how long our mind wanders, how much of our time we can spend with intention
  • How we feel when we use our time well
  • The pain of using time wastefully
  • The Rule of 3 (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
  • Text Expander
  • The natural rhythm of our attention
  • Being kind to our mind
  • Our minds are built to wander
  • Approaching our wandering minds with curiosity
  • Keeping a distractions list
  • Scatter focus

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