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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oliver Burkeman about our relationship to time. They discuss the perils of efficiency, being vs becoming, the illusion of time as a resource, parenting and childhood, work-life balance, the loss of leisure, the planning trap, social isolation, a modern Sabbath, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
0:11.3	Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber
0:14.8	feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation.
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0:28.3	other subscriber-only content.
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0:34.6	of our subscribers.
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0:47.3	To damn speaking, with Oliver Berkman, Oliver is a feature writer for the Guardian, or
0:53.3	he wrote a long-running weekly column on psychology.
0:56.9	He's also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
1:01.9	He's also written a few books, most recently, 4,000 weeks, Time Management for Mortals,
1:10.1	which is a book that I really loved.
1:11.9	It is certainly not your usual time management book, and touches upon some of the deepest
1:19.0	questions in life, and in what sense should we even be thinking about time as a resource?
1:25.4	Anyway, we get into many aspects of this.
1:28.4	We talk about our relationship to time, the perils of efficiency, being versus becoming,
1:36.6	parenting and childhood, the notion of work-life balance, the loss of leisure, the trap of planning,
1:45.8	social isolation, the idea of a modern Sabbath, and other topics.
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