Daily: Much To Do Gets You Nothing – Oliver Burkeman on the cult of productivity

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If we stopped trying to do everything, would we finally get chance to do what counts? Do to-do lists create anything but meaningless pressure? Can we ever really get everything done? Journalist Oliver Burkeman talks to Dorian Lynskey about how to answer the ultimate time management problem – the question of how best to use our brief moment on the planet – in his new book Four Thousand Weeks. “We’re all drawn to things that we struggle with.” “There shouldn't be anything embarrassing about the concept of self-help. It has developed a bad reputation on the basis of bad approaches.” “The action of clearing the decks just adds to the decks." “Time used to be a medium, not a resource.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Oliver-Burkeman/Four-Thousand-Weeks--Time-and-How-to-Use-it/25942066 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.2	translates to just 4,000 weeks on the planet which seems terrifyingly short
1:18.1	when there is so much to do. How do you make the most of your finite time
1:21.3	without driving yourself mad trying to make the most of your finite time without driving yourself mad trying to make the most of your
1:23.7	finite time. My guest today is an award-winning journalist who wrote The Guardians
1:27.4	This Column Will Change Your Life for 14 years before stepping down last September. He is the author of three books, his latest being
1:33.5	4,000 weeks, time and how to use it. Oliver Batman, thanks for joining me. Thanks very
1:37.7	much indeed. So I notice at the back of your book it says that your email the
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