#365 - Oliver Burkeman - How To Properly Manage Your Time

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

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... Sponsors: Get a free gift from Tiege Hanley when you try their skincare range at http://tiege.com/modernwisdom (deal automatically applied) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Buy Four Thousand Weeks - https://amzn.to/3BhqQJR Follow Oliver on Twitter - https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show.
0:03.1	My guest today is Oliver Bergman, his journalist and an author, and we are talking about how
0:08.2	to properly manage your time.
0:10.8	Time is something we all wish we had more of, and tons of productivity gurus have proposed
0:16.2	strategies to stop it from slipping through our fingers.
0:19.7	After years of investigating and reporting on cutting-edge productivity for the Guardian,
0:24.8	Oliver has arrived at a slightly different world view of time and how we should manage
0:29.0	it.
0:29.9	Today, expect to learn why becoming more efficient often just leads to you getting more useless
0:35.2	work done.
0:36.2	The fundamental problems which all time management strategies fail to address, how deciding
0:41.4	what you're going to fail at is a superpower, the danger of seeing your leisure time as
0:45.9	an arena for self-improvement, and much more.
0:49.6	As you might be able to hear, I am still on the recovery road back from Larenjitis, which
0:54.8	caused me to completely lose the ability to make sounds out of my face.
0:59.2	Hopefully, I've got an episode this Thursday that I recorded during the mid-st of it because
1:04.4	I had to get it done.
1:06.2	So, you can look forward to that sultry seductive affair, but that being said, I'm glad that
1:12.8	I got it when I did.
1:14.2	Because over the next few months, I've got episodes coming up with Aubrey Marcus, Ryan
1:18.2	Holiday, Robert Green, Joan Navarro, Dan Jones, General Stanley McChrystal, John McWerter,
1:26.4	and Andrew Hubertman, Lots and Lots to look forward to.
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