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...

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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

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